NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that Mexico has entered a new political era with today's inauguration of President Vicente Fox. His election in July was a huge defeat for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as PRI, which had dominated Mexican politics since 1929. Fox, a business executive in his previous life, has named a cabinet packed with other businessmen. They began to take up their responsibilities as the day began. Fox, an avowed Roman Catholic, began HIS day by praying at the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint. Later, he took the oath of office in the country's first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition party.
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