Fox's moment of truth

摘要

There will be "no surprises" in Vicente Fox's first state-of-the-nation address on September ist, say his spin doctors, bar the format: a shorter, more accessible kind of presidential speech, "so that people don't turn off the television." That just about sums up Mr Fox's presidency so far. If you picture the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled for seven decades until Mr Fox took over, as a software operating system, then Mexico is still running, at best, pri 1.1: a more user-friendly version, perhaps, but not the redesign that is needed.