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Denise Dresser
Mexican
Educator
Born:
Jan 22
,
1963
Democracy
Government
Party
People
Political
Will
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Aguilar Zinser played a crucial role in the struggle for democracy in Mexico. He was on the right side of that battle, however strident, passionate, and difficult he was.
Denise Dresser
Democracy
Struggle
Battle
Difficult
Side
Right Side
Crucial
He
Passionate
However
Mexico
Role
Right
Played
So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.
Denise Dresser
War
Good
Failure
People
Good Intentions
Carried
Out
Something
Badly
Perhaps
Executed
Very
Intended
So Many People
Intentions
War On Drugs
View
Many
Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico, members of the legislature cannot be reelected, so their destinies depend less on the will of the people than on party bosses.
Denise Dresser
Work
People
Will
Party
Depend
Destinies
Members
Responsive
Bosses
Leaders
Countries
Opinion
Mexico
Than
May
Representatives
Legislature
Where
Order
Cannot
Public
Sway
Elected
Ignoring
Less
Public Opinion
Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent-seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, and financial services.
Denise Dresser
Financial
Energy
Trapped
Telecommunications
Sectors
Financial Services
Network
Economic
Economic Growth
Crucial
Dense
Mexico
Transportation
Including
Growth
Services
Monopolies
Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself.
Denise Dresser
Myself
Political
Never
Like
Envisioned
Role
Which
Suddenly
PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine.
Denise Dresser
Welfare
Machine
For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker.
Denise Dresser
Corruption
Deal
Mexicans
Breaker
The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders.
Denise Dresser
Government
Party
National
Action
Way
Ways
Corrupt
Leaders
Supporting
Itself
Oil
Which
Worker
Union
Many
The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.
Denise Dresser
Good
Winning
Clean
Push
Generous
Because
Democratization
Very
Afford
Elections
Good Chance
Chance
The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.
Denise Dresser
Force
Itself
Stability
Center
I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to come clean about it. Just look at what we learned from Iraq. Secrecy led to malfeasance. It led to corrupt contracting.
Denise Dresser
Government
Needs
Secrecy
Way
Corrupt
About
Clean
Come
Look
Involvement
Learned
Greater
Opposed
Go
Led
Iraq
Mexican
Contracting
American
Just
Wants
Necessarily
The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations.
Denise Dresser
Relations
Emergence
Advent
New
New Era
Era
Issues
Coalition
Whole
Shows
The Chapultepec Accord is a pact among concessionaires to protect concessions.
Denise Dresser
Protect
Accord
Pact
Among
Mexico is a free trade partner of Canada. Despite that, for many Canadians, Mexico is even more foreign, unknown, and uninteresting than many countries in Africa.
Denise Dresser
Free
Partner
Unknown
Despite
More
Free Trade
Countries
Trade
Foreign
Mexico
Than
Canada
Canadians
Africa
Uninteresting
Many
Even
Mexico isn't a country of routine debates among presidential candidates.
Denise Dresser
Country
Presidential
Debates
Mexico
Candidates
Among
Routine
I tweet 20 times a day, not only about Mexican politics, but about film, books, restaurants, U.S. politics.
Denise Dresser
Politics
Day
Books
Restaurants
About
Only
Mexican
Times
Tweet
Film
While the United States is closing doors, Canada is opening them. While U.S. President Donald Trump is slouching toward authoritarianism, Canada is safeguarding democracy.
Denise Dresser
Democracy
Doors
President
States
Toward
Opening
Safeguarding
Trump
Canada
Authoritarianism
Donald
Donald Trump
Closing
While
Them
United
United States
Canadians have much to be proud of and much to teach the world about compassion.
Denise Dresser
World
Compassion
About
Proud
Canadians
Much
Teach
Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change - better economic management, less crime, and less corruption - and they expect him to deliver.
Denise Dresser
Change
Corruption
Management
Better
Crime
Those
Economic
Deliver
Voted
Call
Him
His
Expect
Endorsed
Less
Who
Fox
When former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari passed the torch to Zedillo, he knew that economic difficulty lay ahead but believed that the Yale-trained economist's impeccable technical credentials would be enough to maintain Mexico's stability.
Denise Dresser
Difficulty
Enough
President
Torch
Would
Would-Be
Impeccable
Economic
Lay
He
Knew
Maintain
Economist
Passed
Mexico
Stability
Former
Believed
Technical
Credentials
Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system itself.
Denise Dresser
Political
Style
Reflect
Savvy
System
Insulated
Governing
His
Itself
Personal
Political System
Lack
Vices
Age-Old
Flaw
Elitist
The problem with Mexico isn't so much the men who govern but the lack of rules to govern by and the absence of institutions to rule with.
Denise Dresser
Problem
Men
Rule
Rules
Absence
Institutions
Govern
Mexico
Lack
The Problem With
Much
Who
During the Fox administration, Mexico turned into a more violent country than Colombia; Calderon's task is to recover lost ground and clean it up.
Denise Dresser
Country
Lost
Administration
Colombia
More
Clean
Recover
Mexico
Up
Than
Task
Turned
Ground
Fox
Violent
Government after government has prioritized the preservation of corporatist loyalties over the promotion of economic growth and emphasized clientelist distribution over entrepreneurial innovation and creation of level economic playing field.
Denise Dresser
Government
Innovation
Field
Creation
Distribution
Promotion
Economic
Entrepreneurial
Economic Growth
Emphasized
Over
After
Loyalties
Growth
Level
Playing
Playing Field
Preservation
Democratic Latin America limps sideways because it can't run ahead. There are too many entry barriers to the poor, the innovative, and those without access to credit.
Denise Dresser
Too
Innovative
Sideways
Latin
Latin America
Those
Run
Entry
Democratic
Because
Without
Access
America
Poor
Barriers
Many
Credit
Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.
Denise Dresser
Needs
People
Few
Broaden
Respond
Governments
Tax
Incentives
Base
Need
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