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...reasons for Salinas's departure were unclear. But the Mexican weekly magazine Proceso reported yesterday that Salinas left Mexico as part of an agreement with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo to devote himself to academic work...
Salinas himself has not been implicated in RuizMassieu's murder. But he reportedlypleaded--unsuccessfully--with Zedillo not toarrest his brother Raul...
Like his princely predecessors, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was accustomed to the sycophantic treatment accorded Presidents--and former Presidents--of Mexico. So it must have come as a shock when a visitor sent ``as a courtesy'' by current President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon showed up unannounced at Salinas' Mexico City house last Tuesday morning and began ringing the front doorbell. The high-level official, laden with documents, tapes and videos, was bringing evidence that a dramatic new lead had surfaced in the investigation into the murder of one of Mexico's most powerful politicians, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu...
Strained by the ongoing political conflict between former President Carlos Salinas and current President Ernesto Zedillo, as well as a largescale loss of investor backing, the ailing peso continues to fall. Yesterday, the peso was worth fifteen American cents...
That indecision is symptomatic of a deeper problem: Zedillo's inability so far to craft a consistent policy on anything. A technocrat and former Education Minister thrust into the top spot almost by accident, Zedillo seems torn between the hard-liners (``dinosaurs'') and reformers in the P.R.I., veering first one way, then another. He may learn, and he will have to do a delicate balancing act in any case. But for the moment, all his moves keep bringing up that deadly question: Que onda...