Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and politician with Spanish citizenship who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he worked in the Secretariat of Programming and Budget, eventually becoming Secretary. He secured the party's nomination for the 1988 general election and was elected amid widespread accusations of electoral fraud.
Carlos Salinas walks through the gardens of the Moncloa Palace with Felipe González in 1989.
Carlos Salinas (left), George H. W. Bush, and Brian Mulroney during the NAFTA Initialing Ceremony in Austin, Texas.
Flag of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexican presidential campaign of 1994.
Bust of Colosio
Mural depicting the assassination
Monument to Luis Donaldo Colosio in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma.
Bust of Colosio at Los Pinos