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Article: Salinas at midterm. (Mexico President Carlos Salinas de Gortari)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 3, 1992
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THREE YEARS ago Carlos Salinas de Gortari was being denounced as a usurper whose claim to the Mexican presidency was based on a blatant election fraud perpetrated by his Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). That is forgotten now. At the halfway point in his six-year term he has turned a sick economy around, suppressed inflation, and reversed the principal socialist errors of his predecessors in office, making himself, in the process, the most popular Mexican president in many years.
Salinas's popularity is not based on charisma. He is short and bald, and has not smiled in public since receiving his post-graduate degree from Harvard two decades ago. But he ...