Carlos Salinas de Gortari
| Carlos Salinas de Gortari | |
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Salinas in 2006
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 53rd President of Mexico |
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In office December 1, 1988 – November 30, 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Miguel de la Madrid |
| Succeeded by | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Secretary of Programming and Budget | |
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In office December 1, 1982 – October 5, 1987 |
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| President | Miguel de la Madrid |
| Preceded by | Ramón Aguirre |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Aspe |
| Personal details | |
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Carlos Salinas de Gortari 3 April 1948 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party | Institutional Revolutionary |
| Spouse(s) | Cecilia Occeli (divorced) Ana Paula Gerard Rivero |
| Relations |
Raúl Salinas de Gortari (brother) José Francisco Ruiz Massieu (brother-in-law, deceased) Elí de Gortari (uncle, deceased) |
| Children | Cecilia (by Occelli) Emiliano (by Occelli) Juan Cristóbal (by Occelli) Ana Emilia (by Gerard) Patricio (by Gerard) Mateo (by Gerard) |
| Parents |
Raúl Salinas Lozano Margarita de Gortari Carvajal |
| Alma mater |
National Autonomous University of Mexico Harvard University |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkarlos saˈlinaz ðe ɣorˈtaɾi]) (born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Earlier in his career he worked in the Budget Secretariat eventually becoming Secretary. He was the PRI presidential candidate in 1988, and was declared elected on 6 July 1988.
Carlos Salinas was born 3 April 1948, the second son and one of five children of economist and government official Raúl Salinas Lozano and Margarita de Gortari de Salinas. Salinas's father served as President Adolfo López Mateos's minister of industry and commerce, but was passed over as the PRI's presidential candidate in favor of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964–70). When Carlos Salinas was chosen the PRI's presidential candidate for the 1988 election, he told his father, "It took us more than 20 years, but we made it."
A tragedy occurred early in Carlos Salinas's life. On 18 December 1951, when he was three years old, he, his older brother Raúl, then five, and an eight-year-old friend were playing and the Salinas family's twelve-year-old maid, Manuela, was shot. It was never determined which of the three boys pulled the trigger and the incident was declared an accident; it was given newspaper coverage in Excélsior at the time. A judge blamed the Salinas parents for leaving a loaded weapon accessible to their small children. The Salinas family did not know the last name of their 12-year-old maid Manuela—only that she came from San Pedro Atzcapotzaltongo—and it is unknown whether her family ever claimed her body. He has not commented publicly on this tragic early childhood incident.
Salinas attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico as an undergraduate, studying economics. He was an undergraduate when the student movement in Mexico organized against the 1968 Summer Olympics, but there is no evidence of his participation. He was an active member of the PRI youth movement and a political club, the Revolutionary Policy and Professional Association, whose members continued to be his close friends when he was president. Salinas was a skilled dressage horseman, and was a member of the Mexico national team at the Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia in 1971.
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