Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Institutional Revolutionary Party" in English language version.
The first film to criticize the PRI by name...
... Mexico spent most of the twentieth century governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, a bigtent, catch-all alliance that included everyone ...
[...] control of the ruling party has consistently swung from left to right and back again, making the PRI's ideology difficult to pinpoint. [...] The Cardenas regime [1934 to 1940], with its policies of land reform, support for the ejidos, its nationalization of petroleum, as well as its foreign policy of supporting the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, came closest to the social-democratic model of European states.
Don't revolutions, by definition, do away with institutions?
Perhaps the PRI's greatest achievement – as well as the strategy that allowed it to retain power for so long – was that it found a way to institutionalize the Mexican Revolution. … as paradoxical as the project might sound. [...] Calles [...] decided to institutionalize the Revolution and subsume its disruptive energy into a mammoth bureaucracy. [...]Institutionalizing became the PRI's most cunning strategy of survival. [...] Whenever it faced opposition from the outside, the party would respond by incorporating the rebellious group or individual into its massive bureaucracy.
History books will tell you that for seven decades, from the end of the Mexican Revolution until the presidential election in 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled Mexico. [...] Mis-ruled, however, is really a more accurate verb.The PRI, screened by a cleverly executed political propaganda operation that combined nationalist passion, socialist rhetoric and fraudulent elections, ran an autocratic, endemically corrupt, crony-ridden government.
Justice was available, if purchased with a bribe. PRI cronies owned the police and the judiciary.
