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Cuernavaca

THREE YEARS ago Carlos Salinas de Gortari was being denounced as a usurper whose claim to the Mexican presidency was based on a blatant election fraud perpetrated by his Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). That is forgotten now. At the halfway point in his six-year term he has turned a sick economy around, suppressed inflation, and reversed the principal socialist errors of his predecessors in office, making himself, in the process, the most popular Mexican president in many years.

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Cuernavaca

THREE YEARS ago Carlos Salinas de Gortari was being denounced as a usurper whose claim to the Mexican presidency was based on a blatant election fraud perpetrated by his Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). That is forgotten now. At the halfway point in his six-year term he has turned a sick economy around, suppressed inflation, and reversed the principal socialist errors of his predecessors in office, making himself, in the process, the most popular Mexican president in many years.