Vicente Fox’s victory in 2000 and the end of the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI, in Spanish) presidential hegemony were caused by a secret pact, according to a soon-to-be-released book. In “La Traicion” (“The Betrayal”), losing 2006 PRI presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo blames then-president Ernesto Zedillo (image) of spearheading the plan in 1994 which called for clandestinely alternating the presidency between the PRI and Fox’s National Action Party (PAN, in Spanish).
So far, Zedillo has yet to publicly respond to Madrazo’s accusations despite being long time political rivals. However, losing 2000 PRI presidential candidate Francisco Labastida denied Madrazo’s charges.
Zedillo’s name has been in the news lately as a possible successor to embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz; Foreign Policy magazine editor Moises Naim brought up that possibility in an editorial published in Sunday’s
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