Mexico after the July 6 Election: Neither Heaven nor Hell

Denise Dresser is a professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnoldgico Autónomo de México. She is the author of numerous articles on Mexico, including the forthcoming essay, “Conflicting Imperatives: The Political Economy of the Crisis,” in Sebastian Edwards and Moises Naim, eds., Mexico 1994: Anatomy of an Emerging Market Crash (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1998).