Institutional Revolutionary Party
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The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) is a Socialist-leaning political party in Mexico founded in 1929. It held power in the country for 71 years from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Nacional Revolucionario, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, PRM), and finally renaming itself as the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1946.
The current President Enrique Peña Nieto is a member of PRI. Former presidents under PRI include: Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Lázaro Cárdenas, Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Ernesto Zedillo.
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Central offices of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Plutarco Elías Calles on the cover of Time magazine in 1924
President Álvaro Obregón in a business suit, tailored to show that he lost his right arm in the Mexican Revolution and whose assassination in 1928 touched off a political crisis leading to the formation of the party
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, candidate of the PNR in the 1929 presidential election
Lázaro Cárdenas in military uniform
Manuel Ávila Camacho in 1943
Miguel Alemán Valdés was the first civilian president following the Mexican Revolution and son of a revolutionary general.
Carlos A. Madrazo, a reformist PRI politician
Armored cars in the Zócalo, summer 1968
José López Portillo in 1976
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