"Leaders, workers", the official magazine of the Mexican Workers' Confederation-the country's largest umbrella organisation of trade unions-is written in North Korean-style rhetoric which is almost beyond parody: "Goodbye to the Great Leader" was the headline, accompanied by countless pictures of Leonardo Rodriguez Alcaine and his funeral, which mourned Alcaine's passing in August. He had taken over leadership of the union in 1997, after the death of Fidel Velazquez, who, as its head for 56 years, was also among the most powerful figures in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which ruled Mexico for seven decades, until President Vicente Fox's victory in 2000.
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