Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Mexico
Institutional Revolutionary
Mexico presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party
government
Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. He is considered the frontman of Mexican neoliberalism, and was responsible for formulating, promoting, signing, and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 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.
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Oct 2, 2026
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He criticized AMLO at Harvard University, breaking years of public silence.
Morena views Salinas as the embodiment of neoliberal corruption and hypocrisy, attacking him for daring to criticize the transformation.