A strange thing happened last month when people in the tourist town of San Cristobal de las Casas saw the renovations to their cathedral plaza taking shape.

The Mexican political system requires a party to receive only 3 percent of the nationwide vote in order to earn state funding, meaning the PRI will likely endure, if but weakened.

The former ruling party must find a home in Mexico's polarized political landscape or risk becoming obsolete. PRI Reflecting on Its Identity, Path to Future - Los Angeles Times ...

So far the party, known as PRI, is doing neither. Mired in a power struggle for new leadership, Latin America’s best-known political party finds […] Skip to content ...

Mexico's once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, which appeared on the brink of political oblivion just three years ago, staged a stunning comeback in Sunday's midterm elections to emerge ...

The political party that ruled México for seven straight decades is back. The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, will reclaim the presidency Saturday after 12 years out of power ...

Mexico ruling party defeated; composer Shostakovich finishes final work; North Korean troops in first combat with US forces; ...

Visit San Martín de las Pirámides on most days, and the loudest thing you will hear is chattering schoolchildren and the occasional horn-blast as lorries take boxes of cactus fruit to market.

Mexico, where women weren’t permitted to vote until the 1950s, will most probably elect a woman President nine months from now.