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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the WGBH Educational Foundation provide an online supplement to the "Frontline" television program entitled "Murder Money and Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Salinas Brothers." The program originally aired on April 8, 1997. The supplement and program focused on the case of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, a former president of Mexico currently in exile in Cuba. Salinas de Gortari and other members of his family caused political violence, economic collapse, scandal and corruption in Mexico.
Murder Money and Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Salinas Brothers
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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the WGBH Educational Foundation provide an online supplement to the "Frontline" television program entitled "Murder Money and Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Salinas Brothers." The program originally aired on April 8, 1997. The supplement and program focused on the case of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, a former president of Mexico currently in exile in Cuba. Salinas de Gortari and other members of his family caused political violence, economic collapse, scandal and corruption in Mexico.
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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the WGBH Educational Foundation provide an online supplement to the "Frontline" television program entitled "Murder Money and Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Salinas Brothers." The program originally aired on April 8, 1997. The supplement and program focused on the case of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, a former president of Mexico currently in exile in Cuba. Salinas de Gortari and other members of his family caused political violence, economic collapse, scandal and corruption in Mexico.
Democracy Within Reason
Author: Miguel Angel Centeno
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271045825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271045825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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México
Author: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Grounds for Dreaming
Author: Lori A. Flores
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300216386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300216386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
México
Author: Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
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The Mexico We Want by 1994
Author: Mexico. President (1988-1994 : Salinas de Gortari)
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A New Hope for Mexico
Author: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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ISBN: 9780745339535
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The newly elected left-wing President sets out his programme for a new Mexico.
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ISBN: 9780745339535
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The newly elected left-wing President sets out his programme for a new Mexico.
Perpetuating Power
Author: Jorge G. Castaneda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565847088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The widely acclaimed explication of Mexican politics from "one of the most insightful Mexican intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review). Jorge Castaneda, recently named Mexico's foreign minister, has been both an insider and an outsider in Mexico's political system. In Perpetuating Power, he lays bare the often mystifying workings of power in Mexico, offering readers what the New York Times Book Review called "an unusually revealing explication of the inner workings of three decades of presidential succession." To outside observers, Mexico stood out for its odd mixture of democratic pretension with autocratic inevitability: there were always elections, but everyone knew the next president would be the candidate of the aptly named Party of the Institutional Revolution, which governed Mexico throughout most of the last century. In six penetrating essays combined with interviews by Castaneda with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents, Perpetuating Power provides a remarkably candid account of the political machinery behind Mexican presidential politics and a view, startling to political outsiders, of how power really operates.
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ISBN: 9781565847088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The widely acclaimed explication of Mexican politics from "one of the most insightful Mexican intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review). Jorge Castaneda, recently named Mexico's foreign minister, has been both an insider and an outsider in Mexico's political system. In Perpetuating Power, he lays bare the often mystifying workings of power in Mexico, offering readers what the New York Times Book Review called "an unusually revealing explication of the inner workings of three decades of presidential succession." To outside observers, Mexico stood out for its odd mixture of democratic pretension with autocratic inevitability: there were always elections, but everyone knew the next president would be the candidate of the aptly named Party of the Institutional Revolution, which governed Mexico throughout most of the last century. In six penetrating essays combined with interviews by Castaneda with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents, Perpetuating Power provides a remarkably candid account of the political machinery behind Mexican presidential politics and a view, startling to political outsiders, of how power really operates.
Mexico in Crisis
Author: Donald E. Schulz
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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This study examines the development of the crisis in Mexico, with the primary focus on the 6-year term of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the first few months of his successor, President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. It poses the question of how a country with such seemingly bright prospects as Mexico in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) approval by the U.S. Congress could so quickly plunge into crisis. The answer is that these problems had been festering for some time. By 1994, a combination of factors-including recurrent economic crises, a failure to introduce meaningful political reforms, the social devastation wrought by neoliberal economic policies, continuing corruption and mismanagement by Mexican political and economic elites, human rights violations, and the growing power of narcotraffickers-was sufficient to destabilize what had long been considered one of the most stable countries in Latin America. The prospects for the future are mixed, at best. While some substantive political, judicial and police reforms have been belatedly made, serious doubts remain as to how far President Zedillo will be willing/able to go in challenging the power and perquisites of the traditional government/Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) elite and the narcotraffickers. A major threat to these elements would probably in itself be destabilizing; it could also be personally dangerous for Zedillo at a time when political assassinations are becoming increasingly commonplace. Moreover, corruption and inefficiency are so ingrained in the political institutions and practices at all levels of Mexican society that nothing short of a wholesale cultural revolution seems likely to solve the basic problem. Such fundamental changes in values are notoriously difficult to carry out and would take years, indeed decades, to accomplish. Thus, while the economy may pick up in a year or two and significant advances in democratization may occur, political violence and social turmoil will continue, at least in the short-to-medium run. In turn, this will pose serious problems for the United States, especially in the areas of illegal immigration, narcotrafficking, and all the costs and dangers they pose for American society.
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This study examines the development of the crisis in Mexico, with the primary focus on the 6-year term of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the first few months of his successor, President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. It poses the question of how a country with such seemingly bright prospects as Mexico in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) approval by the U.S. Congress could so quickly plunge into crisis. The answer is that these problems had been festering for some time. By 1994, a combination of factors-including recurrent economic crises, a failure to introduce meaningful political reforms, the social devastation wrought by neoliberal economic policies, continuing corruption and mismanagement by Mexican political and economic elites, human rights violations, and the growing power of narcotraffickers-was sufficient to destabilize what had long been considered one of the most stable countries in Latin America. The prospects for the future are mixed, at best. While some substantive political, judicial and police reforms have been belatedly made, serious doubts remain as to how far President Zedillo will be willing/able to go in challenging the power and perquisites of the traditional government/Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) elite and the narcotraffickers. A major threat to these elements would probably in itself be destabilizing; it could also be personally dangerous for Zedillo at a time when political assassinations are becoming increasingly commonplace. Moreover, corruption and inefficiency are so ingrained in the political institutions and practices at all levels of Mexican society that nothing short of a wholesale cultural revolution seems likely to solve the basic problem. Such fundamental changes in values are notoriously difficult to carry out and would take years, indeed decades, to accomplish. Thus, while the economy may pick up in a year or two and significant advances in democratization may occur, political violence and social turmoil will continue, at least in the short-to-medium run. In turn, this will pose serious problems for the United States, especially in the areas of illegal immigration, narcotrafficking, and all the costs and dangers they pose for American society.
Supplement to Mexico Under Salinas
Author: Philip L. Russell
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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