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100
First president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910.
Who is Vicente Fox?
100
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
100

The Head of State and Head of Government of Mexico serves a term of six years and is not eligible for reelection.

Who is the President?

100
The theory was implemented after Porfirio Díaz managed to monopolize the presidency for over 25 years.
What is nonreelction?
100

The term for strong patron-client relations in a Mexican society?

What is camarilla.

200
A Mexican economist and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
Who is Carlos de Salinas?
200
PRI
What is the Institutional Revolutionary Party?
200
Employs 20% of Mexican citizens
What is the Bureaucracy?
200
Representative from the Chamber of Deputies are elected through a mixture of this.
What is Proportional representation and single member districts?
200

In 1938, Mexico’s newly nationalized petrochemical industry.

What is PEMEX.

300
The last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Who is Ernesto Zedillo?
300
PAN
What is the National Action Party?
300
There is one of these for every 200,000 Mexican Citizens.
What is a Federal Representative from the Chamber of Deputies?
300
Closely supervised by and ultimately responsible to a special "electoral court".
What is the Federal Election Commission?
300

The principle in Mexican political life that bars politicians from holding office for two consecutive terms.

What is non reelection?

400
A volunteer in the Reform War and then a leader of the successful rebellion against French intervention, an accomplished general and the President of Mexico from 1876 to 1911.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
400
NIC
What is a newly industrializing country?
400
A mutually obligatory arrangement between an individual who has authority, social status, wealth, or some other personal resource and another person who benefits from his or her support or influence.
What are Patron-Client relationships?
400
Enrique Pena Nieto suprising victory over Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the presidential office in 2012 raised allegations of this
What is electoral fraud?
400

The notion that policies can shift from the left to the right as the balance of partisan power changes.

What is the Pendulum effect.

500
Former President of Mexico who by the age of 18 he had worked as a tax collector, a printer's devil, and a jailkeeper.
Who is Lazaro Cardenas?
500
PEMEX
What is Petróleos Mexicanos?
500
A group of individuals that share similar political interests who unite to promote their political careers.
What is a Camarilla?
500
President appoints loyalists to the Supreme Court at the start of this.
What is sexeno?
500

The ministry in charge of administration in Mexico.

What is Gobernacion.