unbelievable family.
el presidente carlos salinas gotari's bro, raul, is in jail for arranging the murder of his bro-in-law, who apparently went out on his wife to have sex with men. this murder may have taken place in the u.s., i forget. i do remember that his brother-in-law took refuge in the states.
raul's wife showed up in switzerland where she was arrested while trying to withdraw money from an account of millions.
in ol' mechico, the presidente serves one term of six years. and custom, until recently, was that the presidente selects his successor to run for the pri party. the pri party controlled mexico for 71 years until el presidente fox was elected in 2000. "democracy" in mexico will be short-lived for it's expected that the pri will re-take most of the country and the presidency in 2006.
carlos salinas gotari selected luis donaldo colosio, to run for the presidency in 1994, a pri party member and ex-govenor,but a man of the people, apparently too populist, because he was murdered in tijuana, and it was televised. i saw it live on mexican tv.
carlos left the mexican economy in shambles. the wealthy were moving their money out of mexico and with the aid of rubin, the cabinet member of the clinton administration, goldman sachs into nyc. on 2 december 1994 ernesto zedillo took office. he grew up on the california-mexico border in poverty, was noticed for his intellect by a catholic priest, and forwarded to yale where he got a ph.d. in economics.
only days into his administration, the peso underwent a devaluation, destroying the savings of the small middle class and devastating the vast poor of mexico.
much was expected of zedillo, and people feared that if he actually did attempt structural changes to mexico, that he would be murdered like colosio. his six year term passed without incident.
meanwhile, in december 1994 people blamed the out-going el presidente carlos salinas gotari for the devaluation. carlos' actions were strange--he boarded a private 727 and flew to canada loudly protesting his innocence and went on a hunger strike! he flew back to mexico, but left soon. later, he went to ireland which does not have an extradiction treaty with mexico. that was ten years ago. i don't know where he's at now; i think back in mexico, forgiven by the powers that be.
Carlos Salinas was back in Mexico in the 2000 promoting a book where he claimed to defend his innocence. The visit went mostly without news and faded away. My personal guess is that he was interested on the ongoing electoral campaign.
AFAIK he went back on Ireland; but some G' searches locate him at Cuba. I'm mostly sure he's not at México right now.
the for once prospering middle class, which at least on the northern border states was starting to donate money in a big way to the PRI competition PAN (a joke at the time), was again thrown back and their savings made worthless.
a really cruel joke by the PRI -- this put some el paso business in a tail-spin for years...
Carlos Salinas de Gortari --- also the signer and promoter of NAFTA which destroyed the livelihood of millions of Mexicans. Credit him and Fox with the deaths of their desperate citizens trying to get out by being stuffed into unventilated boxcars and semitrailers.
The only thing the Mexican elite cares about is money --- I wonder if Carlos will miss Enrique anymore than he missed the brother-in-law killed by Raul.
good post
Last I heard he was in Dublin.