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P.R.I. officials were outraged last week not so much by Ruiz Massieu's message as by the grandstand manner in which he delivered it. His move has served to push the issue into the lap of the incoming President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who will be inaugurated this week. Although a political cartoon last week depicted Zedillo nervously kicking away a ticking time bomb, it is almost certain that he will have to respond to the accusations against leaders of his party, many of whom were once expected to get top jobs when he took office. Like...
...American Free Trade Agreement. The 42-year-old, U.S.-educated economist -- speaking before 1,500 Mexican officials as well as foreign leaders as diverse as Vice President Al Gore and Cuba's Fidel Castro --pledged help for the southern Chiapas state, where economic conditions spurred the Indian unrest. And Zedillo vowed to use NAFTA "to help generate the jobs we need and raise living standards...
...shoulders. "I support stability and democracy and tranquillity," he said. "So it's not too hard to guess who I voted for." Jorge Alaniz, a bank employee in Mexico City, was thinking about voting for the P.A.N. but stuck with the ruling party. "I thought Zedillo was a safe pair of hands," he said. "I just hope he can make the economy take off so my kids can have a good future." When Zedillo assumes office on Dec. 1, the country expects continuity from him, not dramatic new policies. Salinas has already pulled Mexico back from economic catastrophe with free...
...Zedillo will have to keep a grip on inflation but also push for economic growth. He will have to find ways to get more purchasing power to consumers, spreading the country's rising prosperity more evenly. If he cannot do it, the vote next time could produce real change: a President who is not from the P.R.I...
...Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), led by economist Ernesto Zedillo, won the presidency of Mexico and an overwhelming legislative majority as well. With voter turnout at an impressive 77%, the election was generally regarded as clean, despite accusations of fraud from diehard rebels in the southern state of Chiapas...