Monterrey, the capital of the border state of Nuevo Leon, is Mexico's most industrial and Americanised city. It is also a bastion of the voter insurgency against the once-omnipotent Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which culminated in Vicente Fox's capture of Mexico's presidency three years ago. In the northern border states, Mr Fox's conservative National Action Party first began to erode the PRI'S monopoly of power in the late-1980s. Its victory in a 1997 election for the governorship of Nuevo Leon was a crucial breakthrough that paved the way for Mr Fox's national triumph. But now the political mood in Nuevo Leon is changing again-and that could be bad news for Mr Fox.
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