Carlos Salinas de Gortari; The man who wanted to be King.

Sumary
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, to hear this name I start to tremble, was a man who always
sought to be at the top of the power. It is a person well prepared, a graduate of Harvard
University, but would is that he came to power?
Let's start talking about some of the 1988 elections in Mexico. The candidate of the
institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was competing for the nomination for the
Presidency, however, had two strong opponents, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the national
democratic front and Manuel Clouthier of the bread. The first results that unveiled showed
a trend in favor of chains, hours later, the then Secretary of the Interior and President of
the "Federal Electoral Commission" Manuel Bartlett suspended the counting of the votes
due to a "system crash". And this is how the trend is reversed to give the victory to
Salinas.
Members of the opposition were determined to prevent that it was nominated
President. Everyone was waiting for the call of Cardenas to prevent Salinas protest
decision, but Cuauhtemoc Cardenas does not make that call.
Carlos Salinas knew that he should act quickly, to gain credibility and show everyone that it
was a firm and resolute leader. To do this, on 10 January 1989, was seized by the
Government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Union leader of Petroleos Mexicanos
(PEMEX), Joaqun Hernndez Galicia, Cinchona.
In major positions in his Cabinet Salinas, gives men very well prepared, the socalled technocrats.
Three things more interesting
The most important in the movie was that in its grade dream was to turn Mexico into a first
world country. During the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari were major changes
economic and social, including the signing of the Treaty of free trade in North America, a
massive privatization of enterprises including banks and the implementation of the national
program of solidarity in the fight against poverty.
The ecomomical policy of Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas's foreign economic policy was an economic liberalism, which advocated the
Elimination of tax and tariff rates, export and import of products and goods. Neo-liberalism
economic demand less government intervention both in the national productive system
and in the provision of services. In this way, Carlos Salinas began with privatizations of
rebuild and public companies. However, those privatizations only benefited friends of
Salinas.
On 1 January 1994, the Zapatista Army of national liberation (EZLN), headed by the called
sub commander Marcos, took the weapons the city of San Cristbal de las Casas and the
towns of Altamirano, Las Margaritas, Ocosingo and Chanal. The next day, Marcos issued
the "Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle", which constituted a declaration of war against
the Government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
The military outbreak in Chiapas broke at the time in that country, and the Salinas
Government in particular, lived the euphoria of entering the first world with the free trade
treaty with the United States and Canada.

The need to win the credibility of society in the elections to be held in August, led the
Government to accelerate negotiations between the political parties, in order to make new
changes to the electoral law.

Changes in the Cabinet overshadowed the campaign of Luis Donaldo Colosio, while
Manuel Camacho increased his political capital, and there were rumors about the
possibility of the PRI to change its candidate for the Presidency.
The candidates for the Presidency and the Chairmen of the political parties signed an
"agreement for peace, justice and democracy", in search of better conditions of impartiality
for the elections of 1994, Colosio prepares what is his first political speech, that speech in
which the PRI is threatened in a few words.
Since Colosio main idea it was separate the party from the federal Government, breaking
any relationship between the two, something that the PRI not liked. A few days of this
statement, the intention of Colosio was ceased, upon the occurrence of another event, the
killing of this candidate in Lomas bullfighting in the municipality of Baja California Norte,
March 23 of the same year.
To conclude this subject, the Presidency of Salinas had big mistakes, I believe that he was
one of the Governments with a seemingly good growth, with a very impressive
underdevelopment, and what marked the country's economy. This man wanted only
improve in the country, which were only misery for the people.
He is a man with intelligence, an intelligence that would not be at all beneficial, since I do
not use it for the sake of Mexicans if not for his own, under the pretext of an exaggerated
shift wanting to take to a Mexico hit a Mexico of the first world with great achievements.
A relation of the times we live now with the decisions made and what happened
back then.
In his Government there was good and bad, well more bad than good, becoming justice
many times by his own hand, making decisions without consulting anyone, removing your
way to estorbara, and many decisions without thinking about the consequences under the
guise of the good of our country.
What few people know is that he is the political Godfather of Enrique Pea Nieto. This is
what awaits us, again, a new Salinas de Gortari as President?
(Lpez, 2012)
Lpez, A. (Direccin). (2012). Carlos Salinas de Gortari, el hombre que quiso
ser rey [Pelcula]. Obtenido de http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Fic1XBYx_Kc