Word: leone
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...Ortiz Martinez undertook the unenviable task of charming, consoling and begging the forgiveness of three American credit-rating agencies, the heads of a dozen U.S. commercial banks and 400 investors and analysts who lost nearly $10 billion last month when Mexico's newly minted President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, abruptly allowed the peso to float against the dollar. To the investors, whose stampede to pull their money out of Mexican stocks and bonds stripped the peso of 41% of its value, Ortiz's message was, Come back, the government has an economic plan to deal with the crisis...
...LEON PANETTA...
...long after he took office last month, Mexico's new President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, received a note of congratulations. The sender was Subcommandant Marcos, the masked, green-eyed leader of last year's bloody rebel uprising in the remote southern highlands of Chiapas. What it said was not exactly cordial, but it was to the point: "Welcome to the nightmare...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Rothchild, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Robert Wright...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Rothchild, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Robert Wright ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda...