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Background: The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish
rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A
devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering
the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive
recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages,
underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income
distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian
population in the impoverished southern states. Elections held in July 2000
marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition
defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000
as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections.
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