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...community as a whole.” The keynote speakers, whose speeches will be split up throughout the day, will include Martin M. Werner, the head of Goldman Sachs Latin America and former undersecretary of finance and public credit in the Mexican Treasury; former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; and former Honduran President Ricardo M. Joest. The conference, in which nearly 700 individuals have requested a spot, still has spots open for the general public. “We hope that audience members will gain a fresh understanding of where things stand in Latin America in terms of where...
...that sense, it seems appropriate that King Juan Carlos - head of a nation with major investments in Latin America - got snippy at the Ibero-American Summit. The annual gathering was started in 1991 by then Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who at the time was trying to convince the U.S. to sign a free-trade agreement, as a way to make Mexico and Latin America look like global players. Latin leaders still use if for that purpose - but this time the Spaniards may have been less willing to play along. Their frustrations with Latin America, and those...
...Mexico. For 15 years, from 1985 to 2000, its protectionist, corrupt economy was progressively opened and cleaned up by governments that had few of the trappings of liberal democracy. In fact, some of the most profound reforms in Mexico were undertaken by an administration - that of Carlos Salinas de Gortari - which very probably stole the 1988 presidential election. It was only after years of reform that Mexico in 2000 had a truly clean, democratic election, one in which the ruling party had to play by the same rules as everyone else - and duly lost...
Last Thursday, when a federal judge in Mexico City sentenced Raul Salinas de Gortari to 50 years in prison for orchestrating the 1994 murder of his former brother-in-law Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, all Mexico seemed to exhale. Salinas, the older brother of former President Carlos Salinas, has been a symbol of the nation's rot. The coldness of some of his acts--ordering the killing of his own brother-in-law!--was so great that the case somehow transcended its specifics and became a referendum on Mexico's hopes and fears...
...ever before--thanks in large part to NAFTA. That has given young people in particular access to different standards and values by which to measure the old order. And the young resent the inequities they see. Today's free-market rulers, like Zedillo and former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, sport Ivy League Ph.D.s. But Guadalajara lawyer Cristina Organista, 25, saw her dream of graduate study in the U.S. canceled by the peso crisis. "My family's aspirations went from sending me abroad to simply saving our house," she says...