Biografia de cuauhtemoc cardenas

Prominent Mexican politician Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was born May 1, , in Mexico City. Cárdenas's presidential candidacy, representing a coalition of opposition parties, provoked the strongest support against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since Cárdenas's parties, which included the Partido Popular Socialista (PPS), the Partido Auténtico de la Revolución Mexicana (PARM), the Partido Mexicano Socialista (PMS), and the Partido del Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional (PFCRN), won four senate seats in Michoacán and the Federal District and captured most of the congressional seats in the key states of México, the Federal District, Michoacán, and Morelos.

Cárdenas himself received a reported 31 percent of the vote to Carlos Salinas de Gortari's reported 51 percent.

Most observers believe extensive fraud took place, and some analysts assert that Cárdenas actually defeated Salinas.

In the congressional elections, however, support for