Ken Cooke
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What is the difference between the PRI and the PAN?
Honest answer for an honest question. I was reading about "Mexico Under Siege" in the LA Times today, and that question crossed my mind.
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Ken
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Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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 One's a Democrat and the other a Republican.
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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
One's a Democrat and the other a Republican. |
I doubt it's as cut & dry as that. Nice try, though.
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Ken Cooke
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This was the article I was reading
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=47443
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The BIG Difference
Is WHO gets paid off.
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Hi Ken, I am quite familiar with both parties, but don't want to slant my response with a personal observation, so the best thing is to present this
from wikipedia:
PRI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Revolutionary_Par...
PAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Action_Party_(Mexico)
Interesting anecdote about politics in Baja. Way back in the day..mid 70's..I was riding through Mulege with the
then-mayor. Elections were coming up. We came upon 2 guys painting the Communist slogan (hammer & sickle) on a building wall out by the 'Y'.
I said to my amigo, "A communist party in Mulege?"
He said, "Yes, 2 of them."
"Just 2? Really..? who are they?"
"Doesn't matter, everyone just take turns being the communists. Never any more than 2."
You gotta love it.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Hi Ken, I am quite familiar with both parties, but don't want to slant my response with a personal observation, so the best thing is to present this
from wikipedia:
PRI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Revolutionary_Par...
PAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Action_Party_(Mexico)
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This is all interesting stuff. I should one day study Latin American Politics. The more you learn about different governments, the more you see how
similar each one is to the other.
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Bajajorge
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I always thought that the opinion of most was that the PRI were more into corruption. You know, pay offs, graft, violent acts against those that did
not agree, or stood against them.
On the other hand, the PAN seemed to be the more ethical. Anti drug, anti corruption. More toward governing in an honest manner.
Several years ago when the PAN ousted the PRI in elections, you could actually notice that the amount of corruption seemed to decrease.
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I wonder if the U.S. financed drug war will be the undoing of the PAN in the next Presidential election.
More unintended consequences?
[Edited on 8-28-2010 by k-rico]
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