The methods of control were more subtle, but Mexico's media long bore more than a passing resemblance to those of Soviet Russia. The television covered only the good news, the newspapers were full of eight-column screeds reporting inconsequential remarks by minor officials, and the radio was saturated with government jingles. No wonder that for the past seven decades the Insti- tutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) rarely had trouble winning elections or, when it did, in getting away with fraud.
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