Volume 43, Number 15 · October 3, 1996
Mexico: Murder Without Justice
By Alma Guillermoprieto
Deposition of Raúl Salinas de Gortari
published in Epoca
Lessons of the Mexican Peso Crisis Foreign Relations, John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Marie-Josée Kravis, Project Director.
Report of an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on
Council on Foreign Relations, 45 pp., n. p.
The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States
by Jorge G. Castañeda
New Press, 271 pp., $13.00 (paper)
Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity
by Andres Oppenheimer
Little Brown, 367 pp., $25.95
We have at last a certifiable official document which provides some information in the long scandal-ridden trial of Raúl Salinas de Gortari, currently identified as inmate number 0597-AJ-95 of the Mexican prison system. Until his arrest, in February 1995, he was somewhat less notorious—although well known where it counted—as the fun-loving, free-spending brother of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president of Mexico from 1988 to December 1, 1994. Officially, it is only the former president's older brother who is being judged, but the trial has really become an exorcism of the Salinato—the six dizzying, hopeful years in which Mexico was governed by Carlos Salinas and which ended in chaos and ruin.
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