Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (Napoleon's World)

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (born May 1, 1934) is a retired Mexican politician who served as Prime Minister of Mexico from 1987 to 1990, a member of the then-dominant PDP which ruled Mexico effectively concurrently from 1958-1999. He was Prime Minister during the four-year coalition with the PDS, having previously served in Congress and as Governor of Michoacán and having returned to Congress after the Governorship in 1987. He was selected as a compromise between the right and left factions of the PDP and as someone acceptable to the PDS. Cardenas, the son of former Prime Minister Lazaro Cardenas, instituted a number of broad social reforms until his sudden resignation in October of 1990 following a Cabinet revolt that would cause a schism in the PDP for the next decade. While politics in Mexico were fractious during this term, the economy boomed, helping his successor, Luis Donaldo Colosio, win the 1991 election and return the PDP to a majority.