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The upheaval claimed nearly 1.5 million Mexicans but, like Mexico’s War of Independence, failed to resolve the profound political and social divisions that sparked it.

Speculation has fingered everyone from political insiders to drug traffickers as the ones behind Colosio’s assassination, which contributed to a sense of upheaval in Mexico.

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The last time this style of typography took off, Ronald Reagan was in office and the country was undergoing a financial and technological upheaval.

The impact of the on-pitch upheaval is there for all to see.

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The banking system was insolvent, he assumed, and that implied some grave upheaval.

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