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| | TIME Pacific | Vicente Fox Quesada | December 25, 2000 | NO. 51 |
 | | But the main focus for those frustrations, and the aspirations behind them, was in Mexico City, where on July 2 a former Coca-Cola executive and state governor, Vicente Fox Quesada, 58, overthrew the oldest political organization in the hemisphere, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (pri), to inaugurate an era of openness, change-and uncertainty. |
 | | Fox's election as Mexico's 62nd President marked the first peaceful handover of power to the political opposition in 179 years since independence and the end of 71 years of pri rule. |
 | | The true test of Fox, the Coca-Cola Revolutionary, will be his ability to convince Mexicans, with all their diversity and conflicting interests, to follow his banner. |
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