Second Part

The theater also had a boost in the late seventies and throughout the eighties. By this time the dramatists showed remarkable strength. Intolerance champions in 1981, when a mob of religious fanatics attacked and hit the young stage actors.

At the end of six years created the National Art Museum, the first director was the critic Jorge Alberto Manrique. Interesting changes in the paint would occur in the next six years, caused a furor when new forms of realism, postmodernism and approaches to popular mythology.

In the late seventies advances were unheard of multinationals, whose brands became prestigiantes , now the public was paying to wear in the international clothing brands . They also began to proliferate all kinds of T-shirts with messages in English. The upper middle class boasted its cars of the year and all the electronic paraphernalia that accompanied them. The chavitos gave the first electronic games as the “slot machines " . They also reached the skateboards. The upper middle class took a great interest to wines and beers left for lint. Many people went on a trip to Europe and America.

Many women end of six years, had managed to claim the feminist movement. The hippies from the beginning also gave for granted the absolute equality of the sexes, but, equally , the leap from theory to practice was very difficult and took much sexism among them. In the seventies came the first Mexican feminist activists. The feminist movement has always been strongly backed by homosexuals in the seventies also managed to organize themselves and form a movement "gay” or homosexual liberation in Mexico. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra and the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT) supported the gay movement. The gay movement soon face a fearsome offense when, early in the decade, everyone appeared against AIDS paranoia that initially seemed aimed directly against homosexuals.

From the same sample every discomfort sixty political, economic and cultural had been fought tenaciously, but from the sixties was a priority to preserve the functioning of the system.

The country received the year 1980 with the horrific news that finally came under the value added tax (VAT ) which supplied the business income tax . They charge 10 percent for all products and arm a mess . The VAT served to “bring down inflation," but the new tax did everything contrario.la next administration rose 15 percent tax .

The country was going through a bad situation in the field and that is why they began to import food. In March 1980, Lopez Portillo announced its Mexican Food System (SAM) coordinated by Cassio Luiselli Fernandez. The purpose of the SAM was "safeguard national sovereignty through self-sufficiency in basic grains, increasing the income of farmers and changes in the level of the whole population." Lopez Portillo in Augusts of 1980 held a national meeting of the SAM , the main objective was to achieve a basic basket of 28 products . Sam came accompanied by the Agricultural Development Act supporting the possible association of ejidatarios , comuneros , settlers and smallholders for production and service provision . Intense and found arguments prevented implementation of the law, and the ejido followed his pitiful existence until 1992. In 1983, the new government saw the SAM as a failure.

President hard a special meeting on April 15 that De la Madrid presented the Global Plan of Development (PGD) . The famous "abundance" of 1978-1980 lópezportillista only it was for those who were already rich. The economy was heated and had several gaps; inflation resumed galloping rhythm and galloped especially majorities. However, the Global Plan, effectively, just in total failure when, from 1981.

In the United States prepared the measures they would take to tame Mexico and to give their due to a delusional president who believed to have autonomy and even influence in international affairs. Because of oil, Mexico had gained notoriety in the world, and when the fall occurred Iran cha many countries thought that Mexico could replace Persia as exporting power.

Lopez Portillo Great Star felt more than ever when Internationalist Mexico for the first time in history, joining the Security Council of the United Nations Organization , with Porfirio Muñoz Ledo as president.

Jose Andres and Jorge Diaz Serrano Oteiza had problems because of the Energy Plan and Diaz Serrano was furious because he had poles that were threatened by Oteiza.

Entered as the second term, the issue of presidential succession was in the air and only the president pretended not to notice anything. The President had said that a young man should succeed.

Dr. Rosa Luz Alegria supervised , evaluated and commented on much of the work of the secretariats of State through the National Evaluation System (SNE ) , which gave him great power. In August 1980 William Rossell Lama was appointed the official candidate for governor of Hidalgo, and his position as Minister of Tourism was occupied by Rosa Luz Alegria.

In June raged problems among teachers. Dissidents of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) went on strike because they were not paid and to democratize the National Union of Education Workers ( SNTE ) . In October 1980, Lopez Portillo proposed a bill to regulate labor relations between universities and institutes of higher education and workers. On October 9, the law was passed, which prohibited national university workers union and forced these craft unions they formed or institution.

He started the Core Programme Coordination, which in theory would serve to coordinate, promote and subsidize the industrialists who produced for the people. This coordination, like many government measures eventually help much either.

In late 1980, while shortages in Mexico soared to wish a Merry Christmas to citizens, Logar was something that deeply affects our country in the years immediately: the international banking interest rates raised from 6 to 20 percent, automatically so Mexico's foreign debt rose to more than 34 billion dollars.