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.
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Mexican peso
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The Mexican peso is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 16th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$".
Spanish dollar, 1761
Front and back of an 1866 twenty-peso gold coin, depicting Maximilian I of Mexico.
Peseta or 25 centavos, 1889.
Tostón or 50 centavos, 1919.