Mexican Revolution
The PRI, or Institutional Revolutionary Party is one of the major lasting legacies of the Mexican Revolution; its first iteration was the Partido Nacional Revolucionario founded in 1929 under Northern revolutionary general and president of Mexico (1924–1928) Plutarco Elías Calles, following the assassination of president-elect (and former president) Álvaro Obregón in 1928. The establishment of the party created an enduring structure that managed not only presidential succession but also groups with competing interests. Initially, Calles remained the power behind the presidency during a period known as the Maximato, but his hand-picked presidential candidate, Lázaro Cárdenas, won a power struggle with Calles, expelling him from the country. Cárdenas reorganized the party that Calles founded, creating formal sectors for interest groups, including one for the Mexican military. The reorganized party was named Party of the Mexican Revolution. In 1946, the party again changed its name to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The party under its various names held the presidency uninterruptedly from 1929 to 2000, and again from 2012 to 2018 under President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Feminism in Mexico
The period beginning in 1990 marked a shift in the politics of Mexico which would change the country from the control of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to a National Action Party (PAN) candidate in 1989, which was followed in 1997 by PRI's loss of control of the lower house and the loss of the presidency in 2000. The impact that end of the virtual one-party-rule would have on women in Mexico was an open question. 1990 also saw the birth of "Debate Feminista" (Feminist Debate), a publication founded by Marta Lamas, which aimed at connecting academic feminist theory with the practices of activists in the women’s movement. "Debate" has become one of the most important journals in Latin America, because it also prints articles written by men.