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| | The GULLY | Mexico | Vicente Fox's Honeymoon |
 | | Fox has already done a great service to Mexico: his election ended the corrupt, single-party monopoly by the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), which controlled the country for the past 71 years. |
 | | Many wonder if this devout Catholic, who won the presidency with the backing of the right-wing PAN (Partido Acción Nacional), will open the gates of power to Mexico's religious fundamentalists, most of which are not American-style Bible thumpers, but the kind of ultra-rightist Catholic that went of out fashion in Spain with Generalissimo Franco. |
 | | While Fox has said, repeatedly, that he will respect the separation between church and state which is at the heart of the Mexican republic, a few hours before his inauguration, on December 1, he called in the media for a photo op featuring himself publicly praying and taking communion. |
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