Bernstein noted that plaintiff Shirley Wilder had as a teen-ager given birth to a child, whom she had placed in the same system that was being challenged in her name.
Public information is an oxymoron here.
A few years ago a citizen activist had to sue to find out how many people worked in the presidential mansion. The nerve center of the secrecy, the absolute ground zero of the holy silence, has been the brotherhood of power known as the Mexican presidency. From the moment of the PRI's creation in 1929, it owned the presidency and molded it into a position of absolute, unquestioned authority. The Mexican president has been a dictator draped in democratic camouflage, controlling his people with one hand holding out help for the poor and sops to the rich, and the other clenched in a fist brutally beating down those who would challenge the system. As vicious partisanship made life in Washington intolerable and a parade of international crises threatened to derail the new global economy, Greenspan was the great immovable object.