OT: Mexican ex-president Salinas moves to Cuba

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Mexican ex-president Salinas moves to Cuba

WIRE:02/11/2000 13:10:00 ET

MEXICO CITY, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Carlos Salinas, Mexico's reviled former president who fled into self-imposed exile in 1995, has moved to Cuba from Ireland, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada said on Friday.

Salinas' sister Adriana Salinas confirmed his move to Cuba upon returning to Mexico from a visit to Havana with Ana Paula Gerard de Salinas, the former president's second wife, the newspaper said.

"My brother Carlos was in Mexico at the end of last year and is not planning to visit our country soon, and as a matter of fact we're just back from visiting him," Adriana Salinas told La Jornada.

Salinas was widely blamed for the devastating economic crisis that shook Mexico shortly after he left office in December 1994, in which the Mexican peso lost half its value and interest rates soared above 100 percent.

His reputation suffered further after the arrest of his brother Raul on murder charges.

The disgraced former president had lived in Canada and Cuba before moving to Ireland.

In 1999 he returned to Mexico three times, and he was met first with storms of protest and calls for his arrest, and then with outright indifference.

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-- Possible Impact (posim@hotmail.com), February 11, 2000

Answers

Didn't one of Geo Bush's sons marry one of Salina's daughters? Or granddaughters?

-- Richard (Astral-Acres@webtv.net), February 11, 2000.

Imagine reading the same thing one or two years from now in a U.S. newspaper, except with the following changes in brackets:

Salinas [Clinton] was widely blamed for the devastating economic crisis that shook Mexico [the world] shortly after he left office in December 1994 [January 2000], in which the Mexican peso [U.S. Dollar] lost half its value and interest rates soared above 100 percent.

-- Rick (rick7@postmark.net), February 11, 2000.


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