Life in Mexico from 1982 to 1994 (part 2)

In the elections were allowed to enter the Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores, Partido Auténtico de la Revolución Mexicana, entry raced the Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, Socialista Unificado, Demócrata Mexicano, Acción Nacional and Revolucionario Institucional.

The PRI was yet was planned with the CFE , allowed the use of the polls early risers , voters without identification , among other situations , CFE manipulated the figures and the PRI had almost total control of the House of Representatives and complete the senators , Pedro Arellano said the PRI had moral renewal renewal backpack finish .

The September 19, 1985 , at 7:19 am, Mexico lived eternity of the moment when the earthquake struck most devastating in the history of the country, the epifoco was located off the coast of Guerrero and the intensity was 7.8 points on the Richter scale , there were approximately 3,500 dead and thousands wounded , missing and homeless. De la Madrid toured the devastated areas and said we were prepared to handle the situation and did not need to call in outside help , we were autosufientes , but a day later acknowledged that the tragedy had exceeded the government's efforts , so do not know what to do . Guillermo Carrillo Arena , head of SEDESOL , caused problems as he saw the victims as political enemies . Then President decreed the expropriation of urban land to carry out the reconstruction , but private initiative bother . The quake had a problem for the government's economic plans . Salinas persuaded the president to replace Carrillo Arena by Camacho Solis, this was fighting environmental problems.

One topic discussed was the external debt in the mid eighties models , since most of the Latin American countries owed ​​millions to the IMF and the International Financial Centers. The charismatic president of Peru, Alan Garcia, stripe painted her as the IMF and paid as I could and not demanded it. De la Madrid was the good boy IMF and favored unilateral negotiation.

After years of pressure from the United States, in 1985 Mexico joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT ), with this in October allowed the debt to be restructured and the deadline was extended to June 14 years. Government wanted to participate in globalization, with that foreign investment , mainly American , controlled the entire production , came in prohibited areas. He had a growth spurt .

In late 1986, the National Autonomous University of Mexico was again the scene of a large student movement, and on vacation the University Council approved the changes, which the rector Jorge Carpizo posed that UNAM was gigantic and badly organized, with a structure obsolete.

On February 21, Luis H. Alvarez was elected president of the PAN and the rose which were called "northern barbarians" (a group of employers), but the traditional PAN disagreed and scorned neopanista opposition. In the left field set to match PMT, PSUM and PMS. The succession struggles were very intense especially comes Salinas, Bartlett and Del Mazo. De la Madrid played to cover their candidate would be Salinas.