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Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the ex-president of Mexico, surfaced last night in New York City when he called The New York Times. Disputing reports that he is in exile, Salinas insisted that his successor, President Ernesto Zedillo, did not ask him to leave the country. "Can I return to Mexico? At any moment! Yes!" he said. "But I don't have plans...
Salinas, who earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1978, reportedly struck a deal with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo under which he would abandon public life to pursue work in academia...
...reasons for Salinas's departure were unclear. But the Mexican weekly magazine Proceso reported yesterday that Salinas left Mexico as part of an agreement with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo to devote himself to academic work...
Like his princely predecessors, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was accustomed to the sycophantic treatment accorded Presidents--and former Presidents--of Mexico. So it must have come as a shock when a visitor sent ``as a courtesy'' by current President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon showed up unannounced at Salinas' Mexico City house last Tuesday morning and began ringing the front doorbell. The high-level official, laden with documents, tapes and videos, was bringing evidence that a dramatic new lead had surfaced in the investigation into the murder of one of Mexico's most powerful politicians, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu...
...president has taken much of the blame for the collapse of Mexico's economy. A hunger strike staged to demand that his name be cleared has done little to enhance his standing. Salinas and his family reportedly flew to New York Saturday after his hand-picked successor, President Ernesto Zedillo, asked him to leave the country. The White House today said it had no role in his departure and could not confirm that...