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Según el documento Before Democracy, publicado en Julio 7 de 2003, memories of mexican eleccions, el proceso electoral de Yucatán, en 1969: “It has been a sordid spectacle.”

Y esto reportaron sobre las elecciones de Veracruz, en 1970:
“Review of the vote totals by precincts shows that in several precincts the vote total exceeded the number of registered voters. While officials claim that this is the result of a number of people shifting their residences since registration, this appears highly doubtful. It is more likely a case of ‘ballot-stuffing’ by over-eager PRI precinct chairmen or election observers.”

Y continúa:
“There is no doubt,” continued the consulate, “that the PRI won the election in Veracruz’s 11th District. However, the PRI’s winning margin was less than claimed in the public media. One questions how long the PRI will be able to maintain this hypocrisy and continue to deceive the public. . ."

Y sobre sus prioridades e intereses:
"After all, throughout the Cold War at least, the bottom line for U.S. interests in Mexico was national security and stability, not democracy. As one secret briefing paper written for Secretary of State Kissinger stated succinctly in 1972, "It is important to our security that there be in Mexico a friendly, cooperative and politically stable government and that no hostile power have access to the territory of Mexico."

President Richard Nixon and Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz shake hands at a ceremony on the Mexico side of the Rio Bravo (also known as the Rio Grande) after dedicating the Amistad Dam, in background. September 8, 1969. © Bettmann/CORBIS

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