Can Salinas save Mexico? (Carlos Salinas de Gortari)

From: National Review | Date: November 19, 1990| Author: Strother, Robert S. | Copyright information

WATCHING Carlos Salinas de Gortari trying to reform Mexico's economic and political systems simultaneously is like watching a Chinese juggler in silk gown and pigtail keep a dozen dinner plates spinning on the ends of limber bamboo sticks. An important difference between Salinas and the juggler is that we know the latter will never break a plate.

Mexico's young president is determined to give his country a multiparty political system and a market economy. The business co...

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