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Report on Mexico's new President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Challenges; Actions; Mexican economy; Public opinion; Opposition; PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party).

Presents an interview with Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and some of his bright, American-educated officials. Considers such subjects as, among others, his mandate for change; The free trade agreement with the United States; Foreign investment in the state owned oil industry; Capital flight.

Report on the election campaign of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, hand-picked successor to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado in Mexico. Issues; Politics of the election; Trade between the US and Mexico; Economic problems of Mexico; The strength of Carlos Salinas' party machine; Repercussions if election is found to be dishonest; Salinas' promises to the electorate. . See also (Time, 7/4/88, 2c, p37, 1p)

Details the reversal of Mexico's crash in 1982, when falling oil prices and corruption drained the treasury and the government nationalized the nation's banks, and the stunning reversal brought about by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Bush administration belief that Mexico is a good investment; Reined in inflation, zero budget deficit, booming domestic investment; Developing political will out of pain; Breaking old alliances and forging new ones.

Reports that the brother of Mexico's former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, has been arrested on charges of plotting the murder of the ruling party's secretary general. How the arrest of Raul Salinas has dealt a possibly mortal blow to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Challenges facing President Ernesto Zedillo. INSET: Chiapas rebels: `We will all die'.

Reports that the murder of Mexico's leading presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, is the latest in a series of blows that have left many Mexicans wondering what is becoming of their country. String of upheavals suffered beginning in January 1994; Stark choices facing President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Economic factors; Election campaign. INSET: Modern Mexico: Reform and reaction..

Discusses how a sudden outbreak of violence in Mexico's southern triangle of mountains and Mayan ruins has raised concerns about the future of the neighbor the United States has all but taken for granted in recent years. Peasant revolt in Chiapas which has rattled the government of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; Comments by Mexican historian Lorenzo Meyer on the obvious failure of Mexico's political institutions; Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata; More.

Examines how economic reform in Mexico has yet to reach the grass roots. Details of the market-oriented economic miracle wrought by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; Salinas's reforms have improved inflation greatly; Salinas wants to extend his economic revolution to rural Mexico; His agrarian reform; Salinas's all-out public-relations campaign; Opposition to the 63-year rule of Salinas's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

States that Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari wants to break the state's grip on the economy but won't relax his party's hold on power. Two-headed quality: young technocrats run the economy while party `dinosaurs' ensure labor's acceptance of austerity measures; Political monopoly amid charges of ballot box stuffing and altered voting lists; Calls for faster political reform.

Examines the current privatization of state enterprises in Mexico, under the leadership of new President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Positive economic benefits of pursuing a free-market system; Opponent's charges that privatization will encourage foreign exploitation.

Discussion of the recent election results in Mexico. Cries of fraud by opponents of the declared winner, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Details of victory seen as tainted; The unrest that followed the election; Speculation about the days ahead. See also (Newsweek, 7/25/88, 1c, p46, 1p) See also (Time, 7/25/88, 1c, p50, 1/4p)

Looks at the respective efforts of United States and Swiss law enforcement officials to investigate Raul Salinas de Gortari, the brother of the former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The investigation of the US Justice Department; The inquiry of Switzerland's attorney general; The charges against Raul.

Reports that Raul Salinas de Gortari was convicted in Mexico of an assassination plot. Raul the brother of former president Carlos Salinas; Raul accused of plotting to kill a leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Verdict seen as a victory for the integrity of the judicial system; Possibility that Raul will be released.

Focuses on a sudden rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Deployment of 15,000 troops by Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; Threat of renewed offensive which remains; Demands of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN); The rebels' training centers and weapons stash.

Reports that if the North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect in 1994 as scheduled, drug agents on President-elect Bill Clinton's southern border patrol may have to make room for environmental and labor-law investigators. Results of the meeting last week with Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; Making Mexico's environmental and labor standards like America's.

Recounts the attack from the center-right National Action Party on President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's efforts to present Mexico as a pluralist economy. Nine top leaders walked out of the traditionally independent party and planned to form their own party. The split with the National Action Party suggests that Salinas and his Institutional Revolutionary Party cannot indefinitely postpone reforming Mexico's political system.

Presents a commentary by Paul R. Krugman, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who argues that the North American free-trade agreement (NAFTA) won't tear the continent's three leading economies apart. The nations of North America have already moved toward free trade; Mexico President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has opened its markets; The big effect of the NAFTA; Concerns that large numbers of American jobs will be lost to Mexico; More.

Reports that as the North American free-trade talks move toward agreement, the United States has a once-in-a-century chance to bind Mexico closer to the United States, economically, culturally and politically. How Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has led his country to robust economic growth; Both Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and President George Bush have spoken of a free-trade agreement with Mexico; The implications of such an agreement.

Discusses how the North American free-trade agreement that would link the United States, Mexico and Canada has fallen prey to politics. President George Bush's campaign advisers are telling him to shelve efforts to reach an accord before November. The agreement's opponents on Capitol Hill; How a delay could hurt both the treaty and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; Congressional hearings are airing gripes.

Discusses the signs of trouble that have surfaced for a US-Mexico free-trade accord, with congressional Democrats expressing doubts about Mexico's human-rights practices. Why Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has come under fire; What human-rights groups, including Amnesty International, have discovered about Mexican government offenses.

Editorial. Argues that the overdue structural changes made by Mexico's elite under the guidance of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, 43, have opened the nation to the outside world and diminished the role of the state in daily life. Business competing in a free market; Need for the free trade agreement for both Mexico and the US; Short term costs and long term benefits.

Details Veracruz, where on May 31 President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ordered federal police to occupy the port, while federally appointed administrators served notice to four union cooperatives that their monopoly franchise had ended. Three weeks into the takeover, 4,200 workers have been laid off with severance pay, port productivity is up 35 percent, and three private firms will take over administration by July 15. The transition has not been free from turmoil.

Discusses the split in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico. Congressional elections set for next year and evermore dissident members within the party. Reviving the economy; Party wrangles.

Reports that Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is in Washington this week to discuss a United States-Mexico free-trade pact, which would boost public support for free-market reforms and aid Mexico's economy. Mexico offers fresh opportunities for United States exporters; Protectionist claims.

Reports that Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has embraced the prospect of free trade with the United States, which could lead to a free-trade zone across the North American continent. Perilous waters; Political backlash.

Reports that Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari hopes to send an envoy to the Vatican, the first official representative in 125 years. 1917 constitution denies churches legal status; Laws ignored.

Reports that Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari firmly came down on the side of the US on an issue involving Latin American sovereignty, a move symptomatic of the gradual warming of a difficult relationship.

Report on US-Mexican relations. Possibility of a new era of friendship; Historic mistrust; Drugs; Appointments by Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and President George Bush.

Report that new Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, will choose economic reform over political renovation as his first order of business. Political uneasiness; Critics.

Looks at the United States inquiry into Citibank's professional relationship with Raul Salinas de Gortari, the eldest brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas. Question of whether Citibank laundered drug money for Raul Salinas; Focus on the laws which make it a crime for financial institutions to knowingly accept money earned through criminal activity; Charges which face the elder Salinas.

Focuses on Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, elected as Mexico's new president in late 1994. How the 42-year-old Yale-educated economist could inherit a chillier relationship with the United States than his predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari; Political assassinations and kidnappings that are eating away at the ruling PRI party's stability and popularity; Zedillo's many challenges.