On December 2, 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto and the leaders of the PRI, the PAN and the PRD presented the Pacto por México in a ceremony at Chapultepec Castle. The pact contained 95 proposals and a timetable for carrying them out.
A paper presented at a congress of the Latin American political science association ALACIP lists the rules of the talks that led to the pact. One of them was “Trabajar con absoluta confianza y discreción” (to work in complete trust and discretion).
In 1810, the conspirators of Querétaro met in the house of the corregidor Miguel Domínguez. They met at tertulias literarias, literary gatherings. México Desconocido notes that Epigmenio González, one of the conspirators, was a regular at the literary gatherings in the corregidor’s house.
A report sent to the authorities in 1810, now published by UNAM, said that the plan was discussed “en casa del corregidor, y en una academia recién establecida, y con las mayores precauciones” (in the corregidor’s house, and in a newly founded academy, and with the greatest caution).
Article 42 of the Law of Discipline of the Mexican Army and Air Force sets the path for a complaint. It can go up “por rigurosa escala, hasta el Presidente de la República, si es necesario” (through the strict chain of command, up to the President of the Republic, if necessary).
Article 16 adds that a soldier may not make petitions as a group, or requests intended to oppose or delay orders.
Globo sonda, “probe balloon,” is the Mexican political term for a way of anticipating how the public will react to a measure. A column in SDP Noticias explains that a globo sonda “permite observar el nivel de aceptación o rechazo de las medidas” (makes it possible to observe the level of acceptance or rejection of the measures).
In an interview in the magazine Este País of May 1991, Jaime Serra Puche described how he would bring the representatives of an industry, starting with textiles, into a trade negotiation. “[L]os voy a tener en un cuarto al lado” (I will have them in a room next door), he said. “Ellos me van a ayudar a negociar” (They will help me negotiate).
When the North American agreement was renegotiated in 2017, business advisers again worked beside the official team. The group became known as the Cuarto de Junto, “the room next door.” According to Vanguardia, it was coordinated by Moisés Kalach.
A “Documento de trabajo número uno” (Working Paper Number One), dated October 1, 1986, was signed by a group of PRI members, among them Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo. The group, known as the Corriente Democrática, asked the party to open the selection of its candidates to its base. It questioned the dedazo, the method by which the candidate for president was designated.
On March 4, 1987, at the party’s national assembly, PRI president Jorge de la Vega Domínguez said: “En el PRI no tendrán cabida ni la quinta columna ni los caballos de Troya” (In the PRI there will be no room for a fifth column or for Trojan horses). In October 1987, Cárdenas joined another party, the PARM, as its presidential candidate.
The objection was made in a signed document, inside the party. By the end of 1987, Cárdenas and Muñoz Ledo had both left the PRI.