Word: zedillo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TALKING BACK TO ZEDILLO...
Regarding your talk with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo [INTERVIEW, June 19], I would ask if he is living in the same politically corrupt, crime-ridden, economically bankrupt country as I am. Or is he living in paradise with Alice in Wonderland? Come on, Mr. President, face reality: your five-year economic plan is a pipe dream. Get real. Talk to the people, not just to the sycophants who surround you and live in luxury. Luis C. Calvillo Mexico City...
...Zedillo: Well, I couldn't govern if I were afraid. Obviously right after Colosio's assassination my family and I were very concerned. I wouldn't like to use the word frightened, but we were very concerned. Little by little and despite incidents during the presidential campaign, we learned not to be afraid...
...Zedillo: I consider that accusation totally unfair. We had two victims in 1994: Mexico and the Institutional Revolutionary Party. I find accusations that the P.R.I. as an organization was involved in [the Colosio] assassination to be offensive. There's nothing that has emerged in the evidence that could give support to the accusation...
...Zedillo: I am convinced that the party is moving toward reform. The P.R.I. has a very wide and solid political base, the biggest of any party. But it needs to be more democratic. It's as simple as that. And of course it needs the general environment -- economic, social and political -- to improve, which I think will also happen. So I don't expect the P.R.I. to dissolve or destroy itself...