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...when a good Mexican cop is working with the DEA. A few years ago, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo sent an earnest young police reformer, Jose (Pepe) Patino, to help clean up Tijuana's corrupt police force. "Of all the [Mexican police] I've ever worked with, he's the only one I ever felt was honest," says a DEA agent who has investigated the cartel for years. For his safety, Patino lived in San Diego. But in April 2000, two Mexican federal police comandantes--who had been polygraphed, vetted and trained by the U.S. to serve in a "clean...
...addition, Fox has been conciliatory towards the indigenous Indian rebels' social demands. He has revived several laws to protect Indian rights that were scrapped under the previous Zedillo administration. Fox has also sent a package of reforms to congress, labeled the San Andres Accords. These proposals to give limited home-rule to Mexico's indigenous Indian communities were scuttled by the Zedillo government...
...Gore became one of the administration's most forceful and trusted foreign policy voices. Bush's ignorance on world affairs provided endless late-night joke material early in the campaign, and his diplomatic experience has been limited mainly to his meetings as governor of Texas with Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo. But so far the expertise advantage has done little to boost Gore's prospects. Bush has recovered from his early stumbles. In the second debate, when Lehrer pressed both candidates on how the U.S. should conduct itself in the world, Bush managed to sound credible when discussing global hot spots...
...TIME: Do you think things will go as badly for Zedillo when he steps down as they did for you? SALINAS: I just hope that Zedillo won't be subject to a persecution of the state. And, I think he owes the PRI an explanation of why he brought the party to an historical defeat...
...TIME: When you left Mexico in 1995 after your hunger strike, was there any trade-off between you and Zedillo's government? SALINAS: I didn't ask for any special treatment The hunger strike was necessary because the nomenklatura was pushing for a judicial order to arrest me. They were ready to go against me in the Colosio case (in which the PRI presidential candidate in 1994 was assassinated). Why would I want this? The death of Colosio caused the most severe political and economic crisis within my administration. We lost $10 bn in capital flight immediately after his death...