mexico vocab

mesitzos

mexican of mixed european and indigenus blood who make up vast majority of mexico population

mexican revolution

secretary of goverment

top cabinet post that controlls internal poltical afairs and was often a sepping-stone to presidency under PRT

Secretary of the treasury

mexico most powerful conmic cabinet minister

constitution of 1917

document established by the mexican revolution that continues to regulate mexico politcal regime

federal electoral institute

inpendant agency that regulary elections in mexico, created in 2996 to end decades of electoral fraud

patron-clirnt relationships

Relationship in which powerful goverment officals deliver state services and acess to power/exchange for poltical support

camarillas

vast informal networks of personal loyality that operates as powerful poltical cliques

coporataism

a method of co-optation whereby authoritarian system create or sanction a limted number of orginzation to represent the intrest of the public and restrict those not approved or set up by the state

gender parity

requiring a 50/50 gender balance between women and men in political, public, and judicial positions

PRI (Partido revolutucionario institucional

political party tthat emerged from the mexican revoultion to preside over an authoritarian regime that last s untill 2000

PRD( partido de la revoulucionario inslitucional

mexico main party or the left

PAN (partido accion nacional)

conserative catholic mexico pollitical party that untill 2000 was main opposition to the PRI

MORENA

Mexico dominant party,a left-wing populist political party

Confederation of mexican workers (ISI)

mexico dominate trade union confederation,which was a main piller of the PRI authoritarian regime

televisa

mexico largest media conglomerate, which for decades enjoyed a close relationship with the PRI

Zapatista army of national liberation (EZLN)

largely mayan rebl group that staged ab uprising in 1994 demanding political reform and greater right for mexico indigenous people

import substitution industralization

political econmic model followed during the authoritarian regime of PRI, in which the domestic econmy was protected by high tarriffs in order to promote industrial growth

PEMEX

Mexico powerful state-owned oil monopoly

maquiladoras

factories that import gods or parts to manufacture goods that are then exported

informal sector

a sector of the econmy that is not regulated or taxed by the state

NAFTA/USMCA

North American trade,eliminating barries for trading