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Mexico is a country where nothing is ever quite what it seems. Appointments are made to be broken. Most prices are negotiable. Saving face is more important than telling the truth. Yet what President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is striving to achieve is unusually straightforward. Since his inauguration in December...
"President Salinas de Gortari likes to insist that Mexico has decided to change, [but] to continue to be Mexico," said Solana, refering to the recent political liberalization in Mexico and to the rising tension in the relationship between the two neighboring countries.
So Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari made sure all the stops were pulled out for this exhibit. The country's biggest media mogul, Emilio Azcarraga, put up the money. An unprecedented tonnage of basalt, clay, obsidian, jade, gilt, inlaid wood and painted canvas has been moved out of...
The Rodriguez episode is the latest in a string of abuses that have aroused concern over Mexico's human-rights record. Salinas, on tour in Tokyo, immediately telephoned Castaneda to offer sympathies and sent a letter to the liberal daily La Jornada promising to pursue the culprits. But at the...
The incident has aroused questions about whether the government is permitting such abuses -- or has lost its authority to stop them. Some analysts suggest the threat against Castaneda may have come from someone wanting to hurt the Salinas administration.