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MisterP

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Sat Sep-01-07 07:53 PM
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36. this was de la Madrid's "response" to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake:

not respond for 6 hours, then send the Army out--to keep people from digging others out of the rubble! This really intensified loathing for the ruling neoliberal PRI party and made the PRD (apparently) win the 1988 election there (though the tabulating computers "crashed" for a week just as the PRI started falling behind, leaving Salinas the alleged victor)
Of course, if we did anything as radical as reject 1.5-party neoliberalism or start up our mass-based American PRD, then the wrong cats would be voted to the leadership of Mouseland!

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