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Ever since 2000, when the National Action Party (PAN) ended seven decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), there has been a broad consensus that Mexico needs thoroughgoing reform of its corporatist institutions and its oligopolistic economy if it is to create a vigorous, prosperous democracy. But the opposition has been reluctant to forfeit short-term advantage or anger privileged insiders—from teachers to television companies—by helping the government pass legislation. The current president, Felipe Calder