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President that served from 1934 to 1940.
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Nationalized the oil industry
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Known as "the independent president"
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Promoted land reform
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Developed PRM as well as its corporatist structure
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Served from 1940 to 1946
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Dropped military sector from the PRM
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Renamed the PRM the PRI
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Worked with FDR to set up Bracero Program
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Served from 1952 to 1958
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Adolfo Ruiz Cartmas
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Women were given the right to vote during his presidency
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Adolfo Ruiz Cartmas
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Was president during Operation Wetback
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Adolfo Ruiz Cartmas
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Served from 1964 to 1970
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Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
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Brought the Olympics to Mexico
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Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
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The Tlatelolco Massacre occurred during his presidency
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Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
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Served from 1970 to 1976
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Luis Echeverria
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Was the minister accused of organizing the Tlatelolco Massacre.
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Luis Echeverria
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Carried out land reform
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Luis Echeverria
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Ordered a number of social programs to be carried out
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Luis Echeverria
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Served from 1976 to 1983
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Jose Lopez Portillo
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An abundance of oil was found in Mexico at the beginning of his presidency
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Jose Lopez Portillo
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He expanded and upgraded the country's oil facilities
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Jose Lopez Portillo
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Overspent due to oil profit projections
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Jose Lopez Portillo
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The economic collapse that triggered the world recession happened during his term.
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Jose Lopez Portillo
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Still made fun of for saying he would "defend the peso like a dog" against devaluation.
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Jose Lopez Portillo
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Served from 1982 to 1988
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Miguel de la Madrid
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Nationalized the country's banks
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Miguel de la Madrid
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Negotiated agreement with the United States and IMF
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Miguel de la Madrid
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Toured Spain and normalized relations
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Miguel de la Madrid
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Served from 1988 to 1994
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Negotiated NAFTA
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Created Solidarity
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Privatized banks (and provided discounts to friends)
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Privatized Telmex (by selling it to Cuba after he had purchase 10%)
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Privatized state corporations
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Started automatic voter registration
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Removed voting from Gobernacion
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Invited international observers to elections
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Congressional elections were free and fair for the first time during his term
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Selected PRI candidate Colosio, Head of Electoral/Corruption Reform who was assassinated.
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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The Zapatista Uprising occurred during his term
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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The peso collapsed during his presidency
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Publically blamed Zedillo the new president for Mexican economy's collapse
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Served from 1994 to 2000
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Last authoritarian president
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Chosen quickly to replace Colosio after his assassination
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Managed currency collapse by negotiating United States loan (oil money going to New York)
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Was president during the Aquas Blancas Massacre
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Was president during Acteal Massacre
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Served from 2000 to 2006
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Vicente Fox Quesada
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First democratically elected president
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Vicente Fox Quesada
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Served from 2006 to 2012
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Felipe Calderon
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Presidency will be best known for the drug war
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Felipe Calderon
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Enforced anti-clerical elements of the Constitution of 1917
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Plutarco Elías Calles
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Served from 1877 to 1911
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Porfirio Diaz
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Rule was known as the Porfiriato
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Porfirio Diaz
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In an effort to modernize Mexico and make it rich, he forced industrialization and allowed tax breaks and corruption.
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Porfirio Diaz
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Set precedent of no re-election by stepping down after his first term
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Alvero Obregon
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President during Cristero Revolt
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Plutarco Elias Calles
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Formed the Revolutionary Family from the revolutionary generals
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Plutarco Elias Calles
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Method of lacing speeches with symbols of revolution (including all generals) and socialism
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Continflesco
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Made amendments to PRN membership that took dues from officials for the party that resulted in increased party size
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Portes Gil
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Who developed the Pendulum Theory?
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Martin Needer
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Theory that says presidents selected to successors of differing ideology to ensure party loyatly among the Revolutionary Family instead of a focus on ideology and faction.
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Pendulum Theory
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Calles' successor
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Created the National Party of the Revolution
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Plutarco Elias Calles
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Dissolved the PNR and reconstructed it with four sectors.
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Renamed the PNR to the PRM
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Four structures of the PRM
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Labor, Peasant, Popular, Military
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Renames the PRM the Institutional Party of the Revolution
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Removed military structure from PRI
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Theory that there was no method to presidential selection
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Serendipitous Theory
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Who developed the Serendipitous Theory?
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Daniel Villegas
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