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Biography of Carlos Salinas, de Gortari
Name: Carlos Salinas, de Gortari
Birth Date: April 3, 1948
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Agualeguas, Nuevo León, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Male
Occupations: president
Carlos Salinas, de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 1948) was elected president of Mexico in 1988. He quickly moved toward an economy based more on free market principles than on state control and toward better economic relations with the United States. He is, perhaps, best known for his role in negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Born on April 3, 1948, in the small town of Agualeguas, Nuevo León, only about 25 miles from the United States border, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was raised in a politically active Mexican family. His father, Raul Salinas Lozano, had served the state of Nuevo León in the national Senate and in 1958 became Mexico's secretary of industry and commerce, a position he held for six years. The younger Salinas, after having received his undergraduate degree in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, entered the graduate program at Harvard University. Compiling an excellent academic record …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Salinas' accounts might have come from drug traffickers, according to the New York Times. It is also alleged that Salinas' sister, Adriana, is under investigation for fraud that may have made her millions richer.Salinas denied any involvement in the money scandal. "My brother Raul's deception is unacceptable to me," Salinas said in a New York Times interview. He made only brief return visits to Mexico to see family after his 1995 exile. Associated Events North American Free Trade Agreement Further Reading There is no English-language biography of Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Two studies of Mexican politics, Judith Adler Hellman's Mexico in Crisis (2nd ed., 1983); and Daniel Levy's and Gabriel Székely's Mexico Paradox of Stability and Change (2nd ed., 1983), provide context for his economic policies. Michael C. Meyer and William L. Sherman's The Course of Mexican History (4th ed., 1990) contains a brief section on the Salinas administration.
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