The power politics of Carlos Salinas; Mexico's new president aims to overhaul his debt-ridden economy. (Carlos Salinas de Gortari )

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: March 20, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

The mood inside the oil workers' ball was grim. The delegates, large men with work-scarred hands but welltailored suits, were voting for a new union leader. Their old chief, Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, a k a La Quina, bad been a god to most of them, a Mexican Jimmy Hoffa who lined his workers' pockets even as he filled his own. But La Quina defied Mexico's new young President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and lost. In early January, soldiers dragged the union boss from his home and jailed him for arms smuggling and murder. Now the union's new leadership, handpicked by Salinas, ...

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