The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa called this system "the perfect dictatorship" because it maintains power but limits the powerful.

It's possible, but not because the old comprehensive pyramid of PRI power-what Mario Vargas Llosa once called "the perfect dictatorship"-can be restored.

In its heyday, it was known as a perfect dictatorship in democratic clothing, each president handing power to his handpicked successor.

In 1990 Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa called the government under the PRI as la dictadura perfecta ("the perfect dictatorship").

When it was tossed from the presidency in the year 2000, few expected that the "perfect dictatorship", a description coined by Mario Vargas Llosa, would return again in only 12 years.

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has called Mexico "the perfect dictatorship," and is now persona non grata here.

The story of how the perfect dictatorship came unglued is one of the most fascinating stories of our time, and the authors tell their story well.

The authors describe its transition so far as the transition between a perfect dictatorship and an imperfect democracy, but troubling questions remain.

He declared, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship.

The statement, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship" became a cliché in Mexico and internationally, until the PRI fell from power in 2000.