Political Groups Within the Left and outside the PRI. Note: The times of the radical left ended in Mexico in 1988 with the formation of the Frente Democr�tico Nacional, an alliance of several parties which proposed Cuauht�moc C�rdenas, a former member of the PRI, as its candidate to the Presidency, as will be explained later. With the end of the Eastern bloc and the loss of prestige Marxism suffered since the 1989-1991 period, even those who were the most radical Mexican communists inside formally recognized leftist parties abandoned their positions and adopted more "Centric" ideas, � la Miterrand (Remember the late French President?) and now claim to be believers of the "Center-left" and partisans of the "Third Way". The only radical Marxists in Mexico today survive only within the PRI -as stated before-, within public universities, and in those misguided groups that are named "Guerrillas". The typical scheme of power of the Mexican left parties is that of a united, nuclear, monolithic group. In this "Left", or center-left, unity and obedience to their leaders prevail. There are no disident groups, and when a member of the party disagrees with its leaders, its policies or its methods, he just leaves it. In this page, each group is named as its leader and host party. The C�rdenas-PRD Group. Formed in 1988 when Cuauht�moc C�rdenas left the PRI to seek presidential election as an oppositionist candidate and the Frente Democr�tico Nacional (FDN-National Democratic Front) was formed by the union of a nationalist party with several left parties and strenghtened in 1989 with the formation of the Partido de la Revoluci�n Democr�tica (PRD-Party of the Democratic Revolution), it is formed by the top members of the PRD: Cuauht�moc C�rdenas, Senator Pablo G�mez, Candidate Andr�s Manuel L�pez, and Party President Amalia Garc�a. They have almost absolute control of the PRD. Its power grew up when C�rdenas won the election for Mexico City Mayor and the party won the States Governments in Zacatecas and Tlaxcala.Note: It seems there is a movement underground the PRD led by Carlos Imaz, President of the PRD in the Federal District. Imaz is named "Carlos Sal-Imaz" by other members of his party. It seems he has close links to former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and has been accused several times of being one of the brains that created and direct the "Paristas" movement in the Mexican National Authonomous University. Read and read. It's almost sure Imaz will work to divide and eventually destroy the PRD.Other groups will be added later...
Non-PRI Leftist Political Groups in MexicoHosted by www.Geocities.ws
