The name of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leónformer PRI president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, has risen in public opinion after ensuring, in an article for the magazine Free lyricsthat the democracy In the country it is in a critical state of a “tyrannical regime“Drusted by Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
In his text, Zedillo said that the Mexican Republic has been strongly affected by the alleged “transformation” Morenista That, he said, he seeks to eliminate autonomous bodies, expand the informal preventive detention, co -opt forces armed and take over the judiciary.
Self -proclaimed defender of democracy, the Federal ex -president also directed a letter to the current president, ensuring that he was clear about his “need” to break the silence that was imposed on publicly commented on the affairs of the country.
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Ernesto Zedillowho was the last head of the uninterrupted Executive of the PRI before the democratic transition of the year 2000, has had a series of differences with other presidents, even within his own party, as with Carlos Salinas de Gortariits predecessor.
Ernesto Zedillo was part of the Cabinet of the then president Carlos Salinas de Gortariwhere he highlighted as secretary of Public Education.
In addition, after the assassination committed against Luis Donaldo Colosio In 1994, Zedillo was appointed as presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary, to succeed Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
In spite Vicente Fox Quesada.
A first “encounter” between both former presidents occurred, precisely, the same year as Ernesto Zedillo assumed the presidency: in 1994, date of the “economic CRISIS“.
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This financial debacle had repercussions worldwide for the lack of international reserves, due to the weight devaluation In the first days of the government Administration of Zedillo.
A few weeks after the start of the process of devaluation of the Mexican currency, Bill Clintonthen president of the United States, asked the Nation Congress to authorize a credit line for 20 billion dollars for the Mexican government, to allow its creditors to fully comply with its financial commitments.
In Mexico, this crisis is usually called as “December error “phrase coined by Salinas de Gortari at the end of his management, to attribute the alleged bad decisions to the incoming government headed by Zedillo, and demarcate his sexennium of those “failures.” This exchange of accusations inaugurated the breakdown in the foundations of the PRI.
Luis Donaldo Colosio, Ernesto Zedillo, Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Manuel Camacho Solís (10/19/93). Photo: Fernando Castillo/El Universal Archive
Raúl Salinas de Gortaribrother of the former president and civil engineer, he served during the six -year period of Miguel de la Madrid as general manager of Diconsawhere he starred in a first scandal for the purchase of Contaminated milkafter him Chernobyl nuclear accident 1986, which came from a winery that was in the vicinity of the Radioactive Plant.
The milk was consumed in Mexico and triggered protests on pollution, which supposedly generated cancer in minors that consumed it. However, it was until 1995, when Zedillo had a year as president, when Raúl Salinas He lived the biggest scandal related to his family.
-That year, Salinas de Gortari’s brother was accused as an intellectual author of the murder of his brother -in -law, José Francisco Ruiz Massieuwho was also PRI secretaryoccurred on September 28, 1994.
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Ruiz Massieu was killed on the outskirts of a hotel located in Paseo de la Reformaa few months after Colosio magnicide; Both crimes caused a Crisis Politics At the end of Salinas Sexenio.
In addition to the crime of his brother -in -law, his sister Adriana’s husband, Raúl Salinas He was pointed out for illicit enrichment, so they froze his accounts and assured real estate. The government orchestrated the apprehension, allegedly by Zedillo Order.
For the accusations, he was held in the prison of Almoloyawhere he remained until 2005.
Raúl Salinas de Gortari, brother of the former president. Photo: Archive/ El Universal
A day after Raúl’s arrest, Carlos Salinas initiated a hunger strike in San Bernabé, Monterreyin the house of Rosa Ofelia Coronado, the leader of the Fomerrey 111 colony.
Carlos MonsiváisMexican writer and journalist, he said at that time that he wanted to “now have government attention that he (Salinas de Gortari) never gave those who in his sexennium made fasts”, in a tone of criticism of the ex -president.
At that time, Salinas de Gortari It was questioned by the crime against Luis Donaldo Colosio, the economic crisis of 94 and the direct confrontations with Ernesto Zedillo.
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As he said, the accusations towards Raúl Salinas “They sought to harm him.”
The photo of the former PRI president, sitting in a modest room, remained for posterity. The hunger strike lasted just a day and a half.
At the end of his protest, the former president self -exiled in Dublin, Irelandwhich returned when the presidential mandate of Ernesto Zedillo.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, on hunger strike for his brother Raúl. Photo: Archive/ El Universal
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