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  Mexico - Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari was de la Madrid's minister of budget and planning when the president decided that Salinas was best qualified to assume the helm of state.
The convention formally nominated Salinas on October 4, 1987.
Salinas began his campaign having to defend unpopular policies against a popular rival at a time when his party's solidarity and influence were in question.
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  Carlos Salinas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 3 April 1948 in Mexico City) was President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
Salinas graduated with a degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1969.
Salinas was blamed for allegedly ignoring the economic problems of his administration, and, his prestige lost, he exiled himself to Dublin, Ireland, where he eventually married again.
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 Salinas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salinas de Añana, Álava is a municipality in Álava.
Salinas de Léniz (Leintz-Gatzaga in Basque) is a municipality in Guipúzcoa.
Salinas is a parish in the council of Castrillón, Asturias.
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 Carlos Salinas de Gotari - an unwelcome visitor to these shores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Carlos Salinas left the country, moving to Cuba and Canada before arriving in Ireland in the Spring of 1996, allegedly posing as a banana importer.
Our objections to Carlos Salinas have relatively little to do with his brother's speedy accumulation of nearly a hundred million US dollars in Swiss bank accounts while on a salary of less than $200 000 a year (one of the charges he faces in Mexico is 'inexplicable enrichment').
Salinas continued the economic policies of his predecessor, President de la Madrid, which in turn were largely dictated by the international lenders who 'restructured' Mexico's foreign debts after the threatened defaulting in 1982.
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 Former Mexican President Implicated in Brother's Scandals
Within days of the murder, Carlos Salinas arranged a meeting at the presidential palace for his brother, Raul, and the Mexican attorney general, and at that meeting, Raul Salinas asked to be left out of the inquiry, according to the testimony.
When Carlos Salinas was in office, he was embraced as a close ally by the United States, but soon after his term ended in 1994, he plunged into disgrace and was forced into exile.
Carlos Salinas has maintained that during his presidency he was unaware of most of his brother's business and personal dealings.
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~poli354/Mexico_pages/970410Salinas.html   (708 words)

  
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Carlos Salinas was a big influence on President Miguel de la Madrid and was also the PRI Old School's biggest enemy.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari won his first battle against Jesus Silva Herzog, Secretary of Finance, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano (Governor of Michoacan 1980-1986) and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo when he was named the official candidate of the PRI for the 988 Presidential Elections.
Carlos Salinas says that he does not believe that the phone call that was transmitted is authentic.
www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/october13/carlos.htm   (773 words)

  
 Journal of Commerce, 21 March 1995: "Salinas: Privilege and Impunity"
Carlos and Raúl Salinas first appeared on the front pages of Mexico’s newspapers as children when, with a friend, they shot to death their twelve-year old nanny with a 22-caliber hunting rifle.
Carlos and Raúl were the sons of Raúl Salinas Lozano, a pillar of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the Mexican cabinet and senate.
Salinas’ first major act as president, the one said to have established his reformist credentials, was the arrest of Joaquín Hernández Galicia (“La Quina”), the former head of the Oil Workers Union.
www.worldpolicy.org /globalrights/mexico/1995-0321-JOC-Salinas.html   (835 words)

  
 Salinas de Gortari, Carlos - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Salinas won with 50.4% of the vote, but his victory was the result of PRI fraud.
Although Salinas's administration was praised for its economic reforms, it lost some of its luster when his brother Raúl was arrested and convicted in 1995 for the 1994 murder of a PRI official and was later (1996) accused of massive financial misappropriations.
After Carlos Salinas responded by criticizing the Mexican government, he was pressured into de facto exile, only returning to Mexico in 2000.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/salinasd.asp   (534 words)

  
 Raul Salinas Guilty in Killing and Is Sentenced to 50 Years
Raul Salinas was found guilty of being the intellectual author of the daylight assassination on Sept. 28, 1994, of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, who was then 48 and a fast-rising star in the political party that governed Mexico for most of this century.
Mario Ruiz Massieu, who was appointed by Carlos Salinas, stands accused in Mexico of torturing witnesses and suppressing evidence to conceal the role of Raul Salinas in the plot to kill his brother.
Salinas protested his jail conditions to Mary Robinson, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, and she agreed to examine the case.
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~poli354/Mexico_pages/990122_Mexico_Salinas.html   (1158 words)

  
 EZLN demands judgement on Salinas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Salinas de Gortari, sold the country to foreigners, mortgaged the future of all Mexicans, extended his arms to drug-trafficking and bought the eclesiastic blessing for the criminal system we suffer with today.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari stoled the nations moeny, dispossed the people of Chiapas of their right to govern and to govern themselves, and are who head the dirty war agaisnt the civil society of Chiapas.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari and his accomplices are directly responsible for the war in Mexico.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/ezln/ccri_judge_salinas_dec95.html   (567 words)

  
 Drug probe focuses on Raul Salinas, agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Raul Salinas has been held in a federal prison outside Mexico City since February 1995, when he was arrested on charges of ordering the 1994 assassination of a leader of Mexico's ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
Raul Salinas was later charged with "illicit enrichment" and investigations into his alleged illegal dealings are underway in Mexico, Switzerland and the United States.
Carlos Salinas, who left Mexico in disgrace after his brother's arrest and amid economic collapse, now lives in Dublin, Ireland.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/05/14/mexico-salinas.2-0.html   (748 words)

  
 HISTORY OF MEXICO - Carlos Salinas de Gortari - HIGH HOPES, BAFFLING UNCERTAINTY: MEXICO NEARS THE MILLENIUM
The Salinas family was powerful and the victim was a poor Indian girl from the slums.
The Salinas reputation continued to slide as the end of 1994 was marked by another of those disastrous devaluations Mexicans hate so much.
Today, the Salinas family is in total disgrace, with Raul beginning his fifty-year prison term and Carlos a political exile in Ireland.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtsalinas.html   (2175 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Mexico Special Report
Former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's favorite villain, has been staring impishly from the front pages of the country's newspapers this week, conquering the headlines, owning the airwaves, dominating the conversation, commanding the country's attention.
Salinas said he does not know the source of the $120 million in Raul's secret Swiss bank accounts, but that if it is illegal, it ought to be seized.
Hugely popular Salinas dolls – with their unmistakable bald head, oversized ears and fl mustache – are perhaps most illustrative of the fascination with and demonizing of the former president.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/mexico/overview/keysalinasc.htm   (778 words)

  
 Carlos Salinas de Gortari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
En ese momento las cosas no estaban tan bien, y era algo que Carlos Salinas tenía muy en mente, el sabía que esto no debía sucederle a él cuando algún día llegara al poder.
Salinas dijo lo que querían escuchar sus dirigentes, es por eso que no se complicó su nominación, en su discurso mostró su proyecto que de alguna manera convenció a propios y extraños pues en su oración agregó :
El gobierno de Salinas comenzó tambaleante por el efecto del fraude electoral, es evidente este fenómeno, los testimonios de personas que lo vivieron directamente confirman, sin embargo no fueron suficientes para poder legitimar el desconocimiento a su victoria.
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 The resurrection of Mexico's Carlos Salinas
Only six months before leaving office, in late 1994, Salinas was so popular that a possible reelection was rumored openly, an extraordinary occurrence in a country were non-reelection is as sacred as one of the Commandments.
Having reacquired control over the PRI, Salinas became the direct benefactor and beneficiary of the party’s unexpected triumphs in the 2003 elections, with PRI candidates allegedly handpicked by the former president winning a majority in the lower chamber of congress.
Once more Salinas has positioned himself as an influential political powerbroker to be reckoned with, especially during the 2006 election campaigns that are already underway.
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 AllRefer.com - Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948–;, president of Mexico (1988–94).
Salinas won with only 50.4% of the vote, his victory marred by allegations of fraud.
Although Salinas's administration was praised for its economic reforms, it lost some of its luster when his brother RaUl was arrested in 1995 for the 1994 murder of a PRI official and was later (1996) accused of massive financial misappropriations.
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 Raul Salinas Lozano | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Salinas Lozano held a master's in economics from Harvard University and was a prominent figure in several Mexican governments.
Investigators never charged Carlos Salinas in the murder or corruption cases and he has returned to Mexico after spending much of the past decade in Ireland and Cuba.
Adriana Salinas was once married to the slain man, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, who had been governor of Guerrero state and secretary-general of the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040226/news_1m26salinas.html   (359 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Mexico Special Report
By all accounts, Raul Salinas de Gortari had to content himself with being the swashbuckling ladies' man in the family while his younger brother Carlos, a Harvard-trained economist, took over the leadership role normally assumed by the eldest son.
Today Raul Salinas, 49, is behind bars, accused of being the mastermind behind the assassination of his former brother-in-law, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the second-ranking official in the PRI.
Carlos Salinas has not been charged with any crime, and U.S. and Mexican officials say he is not the target of any investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/mexico/overview/keysalinasr.htm   (1916 words)

  
 BookRags: Carlos Salinas, de Gortari Biography
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 1948) was elected president of Mexico in 1988.
Salinas believed that foreign capital should be encouraged, not feared, and had his congress enact legislation easing the 1973 foreign investment law which restricted foreigners to 49 percent ownership of Mexican enterprises.
The most dramatic shift of all was Salinas' announcement in the spring of 1990 that Mexico would enter into negotiations with the United States for the purpose of establishing a free trade agreement.
www.bookrags.com /biography/carlos-salinas-de-gortari   (1233 words)

  
 Carlos Salinas
Carlos Salinas was a Harvard-educated neo-liberal technocrat who became the youngest president in Mexican history.
Salinas attempted to blame the subsequent administration of Ernesto Zedillo for this recession and was so villified by the Mexican press and people that he was forced to leave the country.
While Salinas was exiled, he wrote a thousand page book explaining exactly why all of Mexico was wrong and he was right which was released to universal horror in his homeland.
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 Salinas Grandes - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
SALINAS GRANDES [Salinas Grandes], salt desert, c.3,200 sq mi (8,290 sq km), in Córdoba and Santiago del Estero provs., N Argentina.
Carlos Salinas modernizó el Estado mexicano: Jorge Lumbreras/doctor en ciencia política.
Raul Salinas tambien tenia una cuenta en EU
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 Bald man on a horse - Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and petroleum union corruption National Review - Find ...
CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI was supposed by many of his countrymen to be a weak "interim" president with no real constituency and, given the three-way division of the vote and the usual alquimia electoral of tbe Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a highly dubious claim to his office.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari won the enmity of the petroleros in 1984 when, as Budget and Planning Minister under President Miguel de la Madrid, he abolished or curtailed some of the union's pipelines into the Pemex treasury.
In the general election last July 6, Salinas was defeated in most of the oil-center cities, and scraped through to victory with a bare majority.
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 FORMER PRESIDENT CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI RUMORED TO RETURN TO MEXICAN POLITICS. | North America > Mexico from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Still, Salinas' return to prominence marks a major turnaround from the mid-1990s, when the president went into self-imposed exile to Ireland and Cuba after taking the blame for the 1994 peso devaluation and the ensuing economic crisis.
Salinas quietly returned to Mexico in late 2000, confident that he would not be prosecuted by newly elected President Vicente Fox.
His close association with party president Roberto Madrazo Pintado is said to have left the former president in a strong position to influence the election of PRI secretary-general Elba Esther Gordillo Morales as leader of the PRI delegation in the lower house.
www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/605371-1.html   (608 words)

  
 frontline: murder money & mexico: family tree: carlos salinas
Carlos Salinas de Gortari was president of Mexico from 1988 to December 1994.
Carlos is extremely unpopular in Mexico where he is blamed for a decreased standard of living, economic difficulties, the rise of the drug trade and the massive corruption that occurred during his administration.
The witnesses implicate ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, his siblings Adriana and Raul, his father Raul Salinas Lozano, and his ex-brother-in-law Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu in drug trafficking operations.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/family/carlossalinas.html   (225 words)

  
 Narco News Republishes Carlos Ramirez on the Salinas Family, Again
It is suspected that Raul Salinas sold protection to the capo Juan Garica Abrego, who was delivered by Zedillo to the United States without going through normal extradition process, and this money passed through the Banca Cremi bank and from here went to Switzerland through Citibank.
Whalen stated the complicities of the Salinas brothers with the Bush family and the personal relation of Carlos Salinas with expresident Bush.
In this context is found the criminal lawsuit by the attorney of Carlos Salinas, Mariano Albor, against officials of the Zedillo government over the clandestine tape-recording and its delivery to Televisa for broadcast.
www.narconews.com /Issue13/salinasagain.html   (823 words)

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