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...identify as many pieces of the Mexican puzzle as possible for this week's cover story, Willwerth ranged from Tijuana and Monterrey to a hillside in the elegant Bosques district of Mexico City, which affords a view of outgoing President José López Portillo's unfinished family estate. Reporter Laura López headed south to Chiapas and Taxco. She also visited some of Mexico's most remote areas during the presidential campaign of Miguel de la Madrid and watched his helicopter fleet land, "no different in the eyes of the isolated villagers from seeing...
...traffic light. Finally, about 30 minutes later, it would arrive at the massive and ornate National Palace. A short, handsome figure with graying hair at his temples would emerge: it was the new President of Mexico, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. Unlike his predecessor, José López Portillo, who commuted to the National Palace by flag-waving motorcade or helicopter, De la Madrid suffered the same delays and irritations as his fellow citizens...
...next six years, De la Madrid acted like a man eager to set a new tone. His aim: to impose austerity, efficiency and, above all, "moral renovation"-a euphemism for honesty-upon a nation battered by economic troubles and demoralized by the latter-day excesses of López Portillo...
...same time, De la Madrid is expected to undo quietly some of the excesses of his predecessor's final days in office. While respecting López Portillo's decision to take over the country's banks, he may try to divest the state of nonfinancial enterprises controlled by the banks that were also swept up in the nationalization move. In his inaugural address De la Madrid said that the government would support the "legitimate rights and incentives" of "responsible" entrepreneurs. The statement was seen as an endorsement of private enterprise, although De la Madrid also insisted...
...Mexico City, some police cadets would literally take a week off from their academy training to learn from veteran officers how to take bribes.) The country's effective one-party system virtually institutionalized the practice, a fact that Mexicans have recognized with equanimity. But during López Portillo's term of office, the scale of corruption reached such levels that even normally tolerant citizens, particularly in the country's burgeoning middle class, were scandalized. Among other things, Mexicans suspect that as many as 1 million phony jobs were created in the country's economy, while...