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Weekly Report - 26 July 2005
MEXICO: 'Old' PRI returns to life in Oaxaca
Mexicans were dramatically reminded last week that the old habits of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) are still very much alive in some parts of the country. In PRI-ruled Oaxaca, a PRI-related union first besieged, then raided and wrecked the premises of a newspaper that had committed the cardinal sin of reporting on the dirty tricks which led to a narrow PRI victory in the elections of August 2004.
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