Newspapers trumpeted Vicente Fox’s election as Mexico’s president with the headlines “Ya Cambió”—Change has Come. But Sam Quiñones, Mexico City-based journalist and author of True Tales from Another Mexico, argues that much of Mexico was changing before the July 2000 presidential elections. Quiñones argues that Fox’s victory marked the triumph of another Mexico, a vital, energetic, and creative Mexico, one that Quinones has been chronicling for several years.
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