Word: hurtado
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...country's debt crisis has also forced the government of outgoing president Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado to pursue a widely unpopular austerity program to revitalize the private sector. Social services such as health, education and nutrition have deteriorated or stagnated during the last few years, as a result...
...graduates of the Mason program include Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president-elect of Mexico, Pratap K. Kaul, Indian ambassador to the U.S., David Blanco Zabala, former minister of finance in Bolivia, and Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, president of Mexico...
...days before the vote, one of Cardenas' strategists, Francisco Javier Ovando Hernandez, was shot to death in his car in the capital, along with Ovando's private secretary, Roman Gil Heraldez. Cardenas promptly denounced the killings as political assassinations. In an angry letter to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, Cardenas warned that the "responsibility will be yours" for any acts of terrorism against the opposition. If the tragedy enhanced the messianic aura that surrounded Cardenas' campaign, it amounted to a disaster for Salinas. Though even Cardenas did not directly accuse the P.R.I. of complicity in the crime, many Mexicans...
...Salinas, 40, in an apparent attempt to dampen the energies of zealous party stalwarts accustomed to ballot rigging, has called for an accurate count. If that plea is heeded, most analysts believe, Salinas will capture about 50% of the vote; in 1982 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received 71%. P.A.N., which collected 16% in 1982, is expected to increase its share to more than 20%. Cardenas' leftist coalition is also expected to top 20%, in contrast to the 5% garnered six years ago. "It is not just the presidency that is at stake, but the electoral system itself," observes...
While acknowledging serious problems, officials from President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado on down insist that drug corruption infects only the lower levels of the federal government and the provincial police forces. U.S. investigators disagree. Not only is Mexico the largest exporter of heroin and marijuana to the U.S., they say, but 40% to 75% of the region's cocaine hopscotches its way north to the U.S. through Mexico. "The major traffickers in Mexico can't operate without the assistance of Mexican officials," asserts a senior Customs agent. "So we're focusing on the chief Mexican law- enforcement officials...