The New Mexico

The reaction to the revolt and assassination bodes well for the future.

Raoul Lowery Contreras from the July 1994 issue

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But as the PRI candidate, Zedillo is expected to win the presidency in the August 20 election, a three-way contest with leftist Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and the right-of-center PAN nominee, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos. Recently enacted election reforms and the presence of international observers may ensure a free election for the first time since the 1920s. Zedillo will probably win even if the election is clean, a prospect Americans should welcome.

Zedillo will support NAFTA with all the resources at his disposal. That will mean spending billions of dollars along the border to improve infrastructure and the environment. Many of those dollars will be paid to American companies operating in Mexico for the first time. Mexico will continue to sell off government-owned businesses under Zedillo, who directed the sale of more than 600 such enterprises as budget director.

Zedillo's Mexico will continue the peaceful accommodation with the Chiapas Indian rebels, because the world is watching. Zedillo wrote his doctoral dissertation on Mexico's external debt, so he knows exactly who controls investments in Mexico and how they view Mexican politics. He knows that foreign investors want a stable, peaceful Mexico.

Mexico will continue its march toward political freedom under Zedillo for several reasons. The first steps toward political reform were taken by Salinas while Zedillo served in his administration. Zedillo and his American-trained associates know full well that with economic freedom comes political freedom. Zedillo has watched Eastern Europe fall apart economically and watched Communists win elections there because these people won their political freedom without a free-market base. He can compare Eastern Europe to Chile, where the free market preceded free elections.

Mexico will be well served by a Zedillo presidency, and so will the United States. For the next six years, Mexico will be led by a man who grew up on the border, who must have sneaked into the United States more than once as a kid, who shops at K-Mart despite a Ph.D. from Yale, and who knows how to recite the Latin Mass. These qualifications bode well for the future.

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