Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former president of Mexico (1988 and 1994), reappeared in the media this week through an interview he gave to Nexos magazine, in particular to the podcast “The Invention of North America”, which Nexos produces together with Genuina.
Salinas de Gortari, like other former PRI presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Enrique Peña Nieto, rarely appears in public and their interactions with the media or public forums are few.
The series reconstructs the arrival of Salinas to power, the phenomenon that within Mexican politics represented the arrival of the so-called technocrats. and of course, the conception and signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as the perspective of a new T-MEC led by the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump.
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“Good afternoon, how are you, my name is Carlos Salinas de Gortari and I am unemployed, because I am no longer a pensioner, now that someone has taken away our pensions,” Thus begins the intervention of the former president, who recounts in detail how he came to the negotiations to solve Mexico’s “mega debt” with the world until reaching the signing of the FTA with the United States and Canada.
Salinas refers to pensions for former presidents, and does not mention former President López Obrador by name.
In his intervention in chapter two, for example, he says about his government and the nickname “neoliberal” that he and his officials were “pragmatic, but we had values, principles, a philosophy that is to serve the people, preach with work.” and embrace freedom and justice.” He says his government was guided by the principle of what he calls “social liberalism.”
The episodes also contain interviews with Javier Serra Puche, Herminio Blanco, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, José Carreño Carlón, Jorge Castañeda and several more.
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In other episodes there are criticisms from Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas himself, who recalled that in 1991 he published an article in Nexos Magazine where he points out that the President subjugated Mexico to the United States and reduced it to a mere cheap labor factory for the north.
Jorge Castañeda is also mentionedone of the opponents, who insisted that important issues were missing from the agenda for the treaty, regarding the exclusion of migration.
He explained that, “the agreement was similar to that of the European Union, to the common market, and Salinas also excluded any request, with the pretext that Bush told him “if you start with that push, this is not going to fly.”
Another of the topics that Salinas himself tells is when NAFTA came into force.
Here the video:
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