Resumen de Procesos de desconcentración del poder en el gobierno mexicano a partir de 1982
This paper seeks to documento and evaluate the shrinkage of the government income due to the fall of the international oil prices (1982), and the effects on the decentralization of the power in the Federal Government at two levels: the election processes of July, 1988 an the split of the semi-oficial enterprises from de Central Government. Varela sustains that as a consequence of the drastic fall of public expenses applied to the social benefit programmes, forces it to sell the semi-official enterprises, and thanks to that, it obtained enough funds to face "the basic social urgent needs" (through the activation of the National Programme of Solidarity, PRONASOL, by its abbreviation in Spanish) an be able to maintain the stability of the country or, at least, of the PRI political hegemony
