Cuauhtemoc Cardenas is not certain, but he thinks that the very room in which he slept as a child 50 years ago is now being used as an office by the President of Mexico. In trying to regain that room -- and the rest of Los Pinos, as the presidential residence is known -- Cardenas has changed the political landscape of his country more than anyone, even he, believed possible.
Cardenas was born in 1934, the year his father became President. In a gesture of populism, Lazaro Cardenas abandoned Chapultepec Castle, in which the Emperor Maximilian and nearly all subsequent Mexican...
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