Background
Salinas was born in Mexico City on April 3, 1948. His father, Raul Salinas Lozano, was a prominent politician. His mother, Margarita de Gortari Carvajal, was an economist. He was raised on the family estate in Agualeguas, Nuevo Leon.
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Un libro que aporta claves indispensables para un reencuentro con formas modernas de convivencia entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, dos países ligados a México de manera profunda. La relación entre México, Cuba y Estados Unidos ha vivido intensos momentos de armonía y terribles desencuentros a lo largo de su historia. Los tiempos actuales van a requerir de un esfuerzo especial de cada uno de los tres países para construir buenas noticias. Con la reciente muerte de Fidel Castro, una época ha terminado; mientras que el tablero internacional se sacude con el presidente Donald Trump, que ha decidido cambiar la política abierta construida entre Barack Obama y Raúl Castro. En tal contexto, es fundamental responder a los nuevos desafíos. Dedicado a mostrar la complejidad de las relaciones diplomáticas, el primer capítulo de Muros, puentes y litorales coloca en perspectiva histórica la relación entre México y Cuba de la mano de un ensayo del historiador John Womack Jr. El segundo capítulo relata los pormenores de un inesperado diálogo entre Bill Clinton y Fidel Castro, terciado por el autor. Finalmente, en la última parte se narra el drama que en 2003 vivió una mujer estadounidense en busca de sus hijos, secuestrados y retenidos de manera clandestina en Cuba. La determinación de esa madre y la justicia de su reclamo no hubieran hallado el complemento indispensable sin la determinación de Fidel Castro y el propio presidente Salinas. En síntesis, la presente obra constituye un alegato urgente y una brújula para derrumbar muros ideológicos y establecer puentes de progreso entre litorales comunes. En palabras de su autor: "México no puede permanecer insensible ante el cambiante panorama que se abre para nuestros tres países unidos por un litoral común, un panorama que involucra el futuro de todas las naciones del continente americano. Hoy las circunstancias exigen la construcción de pistas de acceso novedosas y eficaces no sólo entre los gobiernos, sino entre los grupos sociales y los pueblos de la región" -Carlos Salinas De Gortari- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A great work that provides essential advice to reunite and have a modern type of coexistence between the United States and Cuba; two countries linked to Mexico in a profound way. The relationship between Mexico, Cuba, and the United States has had intense moments throughout history that range from harmony to misgivings. Current times require that all three countries put forth their best efforts in order to have positive outcomes. After Fidel Castros recent death, a new era has begun; meanwhile the global political spectrum is being shaken by a Donald Trump who wants to revert all new policies that were put forth by Barack Obama and Raul Castro. In short, this work presents an urgent plea and a handbook to demolish ideological walls and establish bridges of progress between common ideologies.
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El México de hoy según 33 de sus grandes protagonistas y analistas. Carlos Salinas de Gortari Marzo 2009 Desde el primer instante, puedo apreciar las grandes condiciones de Carlos Salinas de Gortari: su desbordante inteligencia, su dominio de las ciencias económicas, su memoria para las cifras y las estadísticas, su capacidad de análisis, su fino y sarcástico humor y sobre todo el amplio poder de su visión. No hay duda de que le cabe el país, y el mundo, en la cabeza. Como buen polemista no deja títere con cabeza. Fernando Botero Zea En esta amplia colección, en un formato ameno y sin complicaciones Fernando Botero Zea abre un diálogo único e irrepetible con los forjadores y observadores de la historia reciente de México, un periodo marcado por acontecimientos grandes y turbulentos: la transición democrática del 2000, la cuestionada elección del 2006, la crisis financiera internacional del 2007, la guerra contra el narcotráfico de los últimos años y la elección del 2012.
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Salinas was born in Mexico City on April 3, 1948. His father, Raul Salinas Lozano, was a prominent politician. His mother, Margarita de Gortari Carvajal, was an economist. He was raised on the family estate in Agualeguas, Nuevo Leon.
Salinas attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico as an undergraduate, studying economics. Salinas was one of the Mexicans of his generation who studied at elite foreign universities. He earned a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1973 and went on to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1978.
Five years later he was appointed assistant director of public finance in the administration of President Luis EcheverríaEcheverria ÁlvarezAlvarez and began rising through the ranks of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Salinas became assistant director of financial planning in 1978 and general director in 1979, making him a top aide to Minister of Planning and Budget Miguel de la Madrid. After he served as de la Madrid's campaign manager during the latter's successful run for the presidency in 1982, Salinas succeeded de la Madrid as budget minister. The early 1980's were years of economic depression in Mexico, the worst since the 1930's. Under a draconian recovery plan drawn up by Salinas, thousands of government employees were laid off, other federal workers were forced to accept salary cuts, many state-owned firms were privatized, and subsidies to farmers were cut. To boost exports, the exchange rate was reduced from 70 pesos to one U. S. dollar in 1982 to 2, 600 to one in 1987. These measures, while halting the country's economic slide, drove unemployment to record levels and caused real wages to drop to half of what they had been before 1982. Since the PRI's founding in 1929, the sitting president who can serve only one six-year term has traditionally selected his successor. As the 1988 presidential election approached, de la Madrid designated Salinas as the PRI's nominee. Unlike previous PRI standard bearers, however, Salinas faced formidable competition, most notably Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a former governor of the state of Michoacán and the son of General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, perhaps the most popular president in Mexican history. Salinas was also opposed by a wealthy food exporter, Manuel Clouthier, the candidate of the National Action Party (PAN). The Mexican presidential campaign of 1988 a rare instance in which the outcome was in doubt was one of the most spirited in many decades. The official vote count, not announced until a week after the July 6 election, named Salinas the winner with 50. 5 percent of the vote to Cárdenas's 30 percent and Clouthier's 17 percent. Amid widely accepted charges that the returns were fraudulent and that Cárdenas was the actual winner, Salinas was sworn in as president. Once in office, Salinas sped up the process of privatization, selling off state-owned banks, steel mills, and utilities. He established strict price and wage controls, in order to keep Mexican workers' wages among the lowest in the world and thus make Mexico attractive to foreign investors. Salinas also continued his efforts to open up Mexico to foreign imports and to reduce the role of labor unions. By 1992, as Salinas passed the midpoint in his term, inflation had been checked, Mexican industry was recovering from its prolonged depression, and regional development programs had brought classrooms, roads, and utilities to remote rural areas. During the second half of Salinas's presidency the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and the United States was ratified, and a $3 billion agreement was reached with the World Bank to finance the cleanup of pollution in Mexico. The implementation of NAFTA on January 1, 1994, however, was marred by the outbreak of a rebellion in Chiapas state by insurgents who accused the government of human rights abuses and neglecting the country's poor. Violence flared again three months later when Salinas's chosen successor, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, was assassinated while campaigning for president. The PRI then named as its presidential candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, who won a convincing victory in August 1994.
As of May 2010, Salinas was living in Dublin, Ireland. Salinas also attended his son's civil wedding in Mexico City and promised to attend the subsequent religious wedding in late September.
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Concerns amongst the general public that the electoral process was fraudulent caused some dissension when Salinas entered office in 1988. In his inaugural address in December 1988, he outlined an ambitious and important goal of "modernizing" Mexico.
During his six-year term in office (sexenio) major changes were made to the Constitution of 1917 that affected political reform; church-state relations, ending many aspects of anticlericalism restricting the Catholic Church and other religious organizations; agrarian reform, ending redistribution of land under Article 27.
Quotations:
"A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. "
"The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. "
"If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. "
"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. "
He was an active member of the PRI youth movement and a political club, the Revolutionary Policy and Professional Association. He was a member of the Mexico national team at the Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia in 1971.
Salinas divorced his first wife soon after leaving office and married Ana Paula Gerard. He has six children.