America's Funniest President: Mo Udall Presidency & Beyond
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Anyone knowledgable on modern Mexican politics besides @Roberto El Rey for help on that?
Sorry. I have broad strokes of PRI at the time but nothing in depth, Japan I have more information on.
My specialty is American political history from the early 20th to 21st Centuries. I have been trying to learn more about Canadian politics from the 1960s to the present.
All right, fair enough. More on trying to figure the PRI dealing with Pemex getting in serious trouble and the concerns of the US getting suspicious of their voter fruad attempt.
Well the son in law of a former President was involved with drug cartels.
Well correction it was brother in law. President Luis Echeverria, The man behind the Tlatelolco massacare.
He’s still alive. Turned 100 two days ago.
Kiki Camarena was murdered on a Estate owned by Ruben Zuno Arce prior to being sold to Rafael Quintero. Arce was one means the cartels had into the PRI. Arce was arrested soon after and tried, first verdict was thrown out due to method of capture then retired, and Arce was found guilty.
If a brother in law of a former president is tied to drugs who else is tied to it?
If a brother in law of a former president is tied to drugs who else is tied to it?
Relatively He is reponsible for the massacre I said above the Dirty War and banning rock music
Guess I'll have to wait for @Roberto El Rey to come back then to get his input for Mexico. will work on next update in the meanwhile.
Political Retrospection: 1985 - 1989 Part 2
Political Retrospection: 1985 - 1989 Part 2
Europe (NATO-Aligned)
The Americans' court case regarding the revelations of climate change would also cause some alarms to ring across over in their allies of Europe. France meanwhile still had François Mitterrand over in office, becoming notable for his apology to the Huguenots along with he and American President Udall crediting two men for discovering HIV. Meanwhile in Germany, 1987 would see Helmut Schmidt no longer in the SPD, having clashed too much with the left wing of the party and paving away for "the Union" to rise in power, albeit in a coalition with the FDP. However, German politics would be thrown into a loop with the rise of the Green Party. The news coming from the Americans provided them a potent shot in the arm and they were becoming more prominent s a result of this. New leader Helmut Kohl would be finding himself having to now adjust the economy for this. However, bigger news came with the possibility of German reunification over in the upcoming years. Spain continued to develop further and further thanks to the new change in government and the oncoming leftist tide for them provided a good breath of fresh air for them.
Italy meanwhile had managed to recover with their economy, being seen as something of a miracle and gaining a healthy amount of prestige and clout, especially after the rough "Years of Lead". With inflation now down, the focus was much on the exports of small and medium sized enterprises and it was looking to be a good time over for Italy. The Netherlands continued its growling social liberalization over in the late 1980s with the new government while also experiencing a bit more economic growth. Many of the Nordic nation continue to grow and develop, even showing some interest in some of the market socialist techniques their eastern neighbor was doing, especially Finland who at the same time, was also increasing ties to the West, especially with the oncoming dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Norway meanwhile found itself in a bit of a pickle with the revelations due to the reliance on their petroleum. While they remain unaffected in the short term, questions have become raised on future financial stability, leading to the need for future clean energy sources as well as planning financial incentives to shift the profits away from oil.
To them however, the most surprising sight was the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. It brought with it the hope of German reunification along with a greater sense of European unity with it. At the same time, there was also concern on handling some of the political problems. There was also an increasing sense of dread regarding Yugoslavia as it was looking more and more that it would not survive the decade and discussions were being held on what may need to happen there.
Europe (Former Warsaw Pact)
The late 1980s would see the end of the Warsaw Pact. One by one, each of the nations would begin having massive protests and quiet revolutions that would see the ousting of the various communist governments over in charge of their nations for the past few decades or so. From the Solidarity movement in Poland, to the Velvet Revolution of Czecholslovakia, to the Singing Revolution in the Baltics and many other nations beginning to break away from the Warsaw Pact. However, despite this, many of the red parties remained and Poland was even noting some of the mixed economy elements that was being kept in by the Soviets due to the reforms. The peaceful revolutions that came about in the late 1980s were a rejection not necessarily of communism (least as a whole), but more of the hegemony imposed on them by the Soviet Union, being its unwilling satellite states. Despite this, the nations were gradually rejoining the outside world, what with Poland reconnecting over with Pope once more and the economic outreach going on with everyone once more. As more and more of the nations were going their way, talks were being held and discussions planned moving forward. Some wondered if any of these nation would join up with the EEC in the future. Others wondered if insteat they would go and make their own group of sorts or just stay by themselves. Of course, not everything was rosy, given the growing concerns over in Yugoslavia after all, especially with some of the growing ethnic tensions caused by certain leaders.
The Soviet Union meanwhile would enter a period of change under Mikhail Gorbachev. Concerned by the stagnating economy, he begin looking into try make some potential reforms within the nation and was able to focus on doing so thanks to the peace of the time. Gorbachev and American President Udall spoke well of one another and provided more hope in terms of long-term peace and prosperity for them, no longer burdened by the doom and gloom of nuclear destruction. While initally considering more opening up the nation, Gorbachev instead looked to the past and would introduce a modernized form of the New Economic Plan. Combined with some other ideas, the hope was to help settle and stimulate the economy, something that would be made easier over with the greater peace with the Americans. Their sluggish technological industry would get the jumpstart needed as part of various knowledge exchange programs, the GNU Project was asked by the United States to provide the Soviets assistance with their software and the like, mainly due to the open-source nature and philosophy of it. This was agreed if the Soviets in turn adhered to said philosophy though it would not stop anyone from building on it and using it as the inspiration or basics to make their own, much like how NeXTSTEP is a proprietary Unix-like system. The Soviets accepted this in turn of some other deals with the Americans and began helping the economy up, especially with some new investment being put in to some new nuclear power stations as a result of the climate change revelations, with another goal being to deal with the shrinking Aral Sea as a result of their plans from the 1960s. Beyond the cautiously growing success of their economic reforms, the Gorbachev regime also began trying to do some political reforms, but began butting heads with the hardliners and some were seeing this as a sort of "make or break" movement for the Soviet Union.
It would be interesting if the more cautious nature of Gorbachev's reforms caused the attempted coup to be even more of a damp squib than it was in OTL. If it even happens at all.
Well, first year is 1989, so already touched upon that. It’s just me wrapping up the latter half of the 1980s as well as an overview of the 1980s. Sorry it is taking a bit. Been a Bit sick as of late.