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Show “A24 TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD MexicanPolitico an Enigmafor U.S. Washington unsure ofeffects if Vicente Fox wins the nation’s presidency BY ESTHER SCHRADER Dressersaid. “Official Washington LOS ANGELES TIMES will have to go through very steep learning curve in the next several more than victory tours for a parade of preselected candidates from the autocratic Institutional WASHINGTON— There is one monthsto find out what a Fox win Revolutionary Party, or PRI, the fact about Mexico that Washington has long held as certain: When Mexicanselect their president, the same party always wins. entails, what his policies would be and what sort of people he will surroundhimself with.” possibility of change is real. For the past decadeorso, the PRI has been steadily losing its iron-fisted power. Mexican society has becomea protean caldronofpolitical With the relationship between the United States and Mexico as After decades of presidential elections in Mexico that were little Sunday, May 28, 2000 parties, opposition voices _and tive from the center-right National Department and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City say little has been in recent weeks as the opposition candidate with the best chance of unseating the PRI. One recentpoll Fox Cabinet members or biographies on hand of his inner circle. And although Fox has said he welcomes foreign trade and investmentin Mexico, there has been little investigation of what specific slight lead over Labastida. An- policies he espouses. Action Party, or PAN, has emerged other by the major Mexico City newspaper Reforma showed him behind byjust 2 percentage points. Policy makers at the State between Mexico and the United States in the next decade but hasn't elaborated on what he means. 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