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The winner of the presidential election on July 1st in Mexico will have a very full plate indeed! The past decade has been nothing but a series of disappointments for this huge country. And yet, back in July 2000 jubilation reigned when Vicente Fox, candidate of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) was elected, putting an end to 71 uninterrupted years in power by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Another PAN candidate, Felipe Calderon, took over for Mr. Fox in 2006. But after 12 years under the PAN, it's obvious that Mexico is in serious difficulty. The drug cartels are waging an endless and extremely barbarous battle, and the 50,000 soldiers deployed by President Calderon have been unable to resolve the problem; the economy is stagnating; poverty is spreading; and millions of young people have neither jobs, nor education. It looks like radical reforms will be necessary. Adapted from the source document.