Some credit for Mexico's democratic breakthrough (editorial, July 4) should be given to President Clinton.
C4 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A12-13 EdiTheials: Thighestest honor; Mexico's democratic breakthrough; Washington reneges on a bargain.
A democratic breakthrough requires a more fundamental constitutional redesign, in which the contending sides compete for power in a European-style parliamentary system.
The Colorados, their creole fascism discarded but not erased, held on to power at successive elections.The victory of Fernando Lugo (pictured) in 2008 promised a democratic breakthrough at last.
The dream that the 1994 democratic breakthrough would put an end to the poverty and alienation of black people has yet to become a reality for all.
After the democratic breakthrough of 1989, Szmajdzinski chose not to run for parliament, but nevertheless participated in the setting up of a new social democratic party, the SdRP, which later transformed itself into the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).
Having achieved a democratic breakthrough, Ukraine is ready to reform its oligarchical economic system and move toward membership in the E.U., as many of its neighbors have done successfully, Aslund wrote in the Financial Times.
"W.T.O membership might not serve to invoke a democratic breakthrough immediately, but it will certainly make Chinese people exposed as never before to liberal values and democratic institutions," said Liu Junning, who was recently fired from his job at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for his reformist political stance.
Before South Korea's democratic breakthrough, the country's military governments worked hand-in-glove with the U.S. in its rivalry with the Soviet Union and its allies, including North Korea.
In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment made everyone born in the U.S. a citizen, with equal rights enforceable under law, the greatest democratic breakthrough in our history.
