MEXICO: Shutdown Treatment

Is Mexico, after 25 years of one-party rule, ready for a real two-party election in 1952? Not if what has happened to Independent Presidential Candidate Miguel Henriquez Guzmán is any indication.

General Henriquez, 53, is a strong, silent Old Revolutionary from the Rio Grande border who made $50 million building roads on government contracts. Last month, without waiting to see whom President Aleman would name as candidate of the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), the general launched his campaign. He plastered the capital? with posters proclaiming, "Henriquez Guzmán—Candidate of the People," and set out to canvass the country.

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