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In an interview late last week with TIME Correspondent John Moody and Reporters Andrea Dabrowski and Rodman Griffin, Carlos Salinas de Gortari left no doubt that the final figures would cement his claim to the presidency. Excerpts:
On the priorities of the Salinas administration. First, to participate in the enormous transformation that is going on in the world. There's a realignment of financial, commercial, economic and political relationships. Second, to recognize, then promote advances in our democratic life. Third, a war on poverty in Mexico. The...
Although the outcome of the vote was never seriously in question, opponents on both the left and the right challenged the ruling party. By denouncing the P.R.I.'s authoritarian ways and its well-established reputation for election fraud, the opposition forced Salinas into a corner. Political commentators warned that the...
Four 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...
The announcement of confidence in victory hid an uneasiness within the ruling party, which has long garnered 70 percent of the vote in elections--usually through bribes and electoral fraud. It was tentatively reported that Salinas had captured only 41.8 percent of the vote. Cuauthemoc Cardenas, the candidate of a...