ONE MINUTE HISTORY - December 1, 2022

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Published on December 1, 2022 6:00:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWJWIcTqhA

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On this day, Mexico enjoyed the first peaceful handover of power from one political party to another in its history. On December 1, 2000, Vicente Fox Quesada was inaugurated as the 62nd president of Mexico. The victory of Fox’s right-wing National Action Party in the 2000 elections marked the first time in 71 years that the president of Mexico would not be from the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party. Despite holding a grip on power ever since the chaotic years following the Mexican Revolution, the Institutional Revolutionary Party gracefully conceded defeat and turned over power without incident. It might not seem like much, but in a country with a history so full of political violence and petty dictators, the 2000 elections were a welcome and encouraging sign that, while things were far from perfect, democracy and civil society in Mexico at least seemed to be on the rise.