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TIME: Why have you written this book? SALINAS: Many Mexicans suffered with the economic crisis in 1995. They lost their mortgaged homes, even their jobs because banks and many companies went bankrupt. They are very angry for what happened, and since the Zedillo government tried to put the blame for this on my term in office, people expressed this anger towards my administration --and towards me. That's why was I believe that I owed the Mexican people an explanation for what happened This book is one step in that direction...
...TIME: Why are you releasing your book now, at the tailend of Zedillo's term? SALINAS: People told me so many pleasant things while I was president, and waited until I left office to say the opposite. I didn't want to be a part of that. What I have to tell him about his administration, I'll tell him while he's still in office. But it was my deliberate intention to have it ready at a moment when it causes no harm to Zediilo's administration...
This "red alert" issue, as the Mexicans see it, was raised in Washington talks last Friday between Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and President Clinton. Both men agreed to tighten their side of the common border. Says Mexico's Foreign Secretary Rosario Green: "This is racist behavior that violates all international rules...