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NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HAS GIVEN NEW URGENCY TO THE NEED TO MAINTAIN PRIVACY WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDING INCREASED ACCESS TO INFORMATION. THE QUEBEC NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS PASSED THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT, WHICH EXPRESSLY GRANTS THE RIGHT OF PRIVACY TO EVERY CITIZEN AND YET RECOGNIZES THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION. THIS LAW HAS TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES: TO RECOGNIZE AND GRANT FULL ACCESS TO PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND TO ENSURE THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT.

AFTER FIVE YEARS SINCE PRESIDENT CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI TOOK OFFICE, THE BASIC STRUCTURES OF THE TRADITIONAL STATE-PARTY SYSTEM ARE SILL INTACT. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE URGE OF MEXICAN POLITICIANS IS TO PRESERVE RATHER THAN TRANSFORM THAT SYSTEM. IT EXPLORES: RULE BY POWER RATHER THAN BY LAW; THE BREAKDOWN OF MEXICO'S PROTECTIONIST, STATE-LED ECONOMIC MODEL; SALINASTROIKA; PUBLIC DISTRUST; AND, ENGINEERING AN ORDERLY PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION. IT ARGUES THAT MEXICO'S NEXT PRESIDEN WILL CONFRONT CHALLENGES NO LESS DUANTING THAN THOSE SALINAS FACED IN 1988.