
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 81
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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NEWS FROM OUR "NAFTA NEIGHBOR"
Hola, Amigos! Que Tal? Que Hay De Nuevo?
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You remember how former Goldman-Sachs employee and now Treasury 
Secretary Robert Rubin helped Bill "The Generalisimo" Clinton 
send $50 billion down to Mexico earlier this year? To help out 
Goldman-Sach's investors who -- oh oh -- stood to lose some bucks 
when the Mexican Peso got devalued subsequent to the departure -- 
for "parts unknown" -- of "Harvard educated" Carlos Salinas?
 
Remember how all five living U.S. presidents marched proudly to 
the NAFTA tune? "Oh yes, NAFTA is going to mean jobs, jobs, jobs, 
when pent-up Mexican consumer demand is let loose in U.S. 
markets," they and impressive-looking and gabby "experts" 
clucked.
 
Well things are really going on down Mexico way, but you wouldn't 
know it by watching the "three stooges": Peter, Dan, and Tom of, 
respectively, evening "news" shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Of 
course these were the same bozos who helped propagandize NAFTA in 
the first place!
 
Reuters ("Mexico Bails Out Top Bank In Growing Crisis", 12/15/95) 
reports "a de-facto renationalization of the bank system that was 
privatised during the previous government of Carlos Salinas." It 
seems that drug-traffickers had been buying up -- "privatising" 
-- the banks and now the Mexican government is forced to bail out 
these same banks to keep them from collapsing. "According to an 
expose' in the New York Times last July, former Bush 
administration officials charged that they had been ordered by 
other senior Bush officials to hush up reports of drug activity 
under the Salinas team -- such as how drug-traffickers were 
buying up Mexican state companies that were being privatized," 
writes Gretchen Small in The New Federalist. ("Four Nations 
Investigating Salinas Money, Dope Ties", The New Federalist, 
12/11/95)
 
The abovementioned Reuters article notes that every major Mexican 
bank, except Bancomer, has been forced to turn over part of their 
debts to the government. "The banking crisis is a story that gets 
worse every week," a Mexico City banking analyst is quoted as 
saying. Referring to the Mexican government's frantic attempts to 
prevent total disaster, Isaac Katz, chief economist at Mexico 
City's ITAM University, warns that the "government is trying to 
put out fires in one room when the whole house is burning down."
 
Harking back to NAFTA's glory days, when fancy talkers in ties 
were all chortling their chorus of praise, we can now hoot and 
howl in derision. "Officials now admit the probe into the global 
financial apparatus of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas 
and his family is being run at the highest level by a three- 
nation task force whose focus is drug-money laundering," writes 
Ms. Small in her above-cited article. "The investigations have 
proven that the Salinas regime was indeed a textbook case of how 
'free trade' is a cover for dope and looting."
 
Say, couldn't we have used that $50 billion about right now, to 
help keep the government from shutting down?
 
In Conspiracy Nation, Volume 6, Number 67 (CN 6.67), we told you 
about how Raul Salinas de Gotari, brother of the vanished Carlos 
Salinas de Gotari, is on trial for murder -- charged with 
masterminding the killing of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Raul's 
brother-in-law. Reuters now cites a Mexican newspaper (Reforma) 
as claiming that Mexico's federal prosecutor "has evidence to tie 
the assassinations of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio 
and one-time Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) leader 
Francisco Ruiz Massieu." ("Deaths Of Mexico's Colosio, Ruiz 
Massieu Tied", 12/17/95) But links between the two murders are 
being hidden, according to Jesus Zambrano, part of the official 
commission looking into the assassination of Colosio. Says 
Zambrano, "...it is believed that the pressure has been so great 
on the former President (Carlos Salinas de Gotari) that he has 
made a deal with the President (Ernesto Zedillo) that will keep 
him from being held responsible."
 
Hot on the trail of the possible link between the murders of 
Colosio and Ruiz Massieu, investigators have travelled to the 
Canary Islands to interview two "witches" who may have 
information. El Financiero newspaper, according to a Reuters 
article ("Mexico Police Probe Witches In Colosio Case", 
12/16/95), has said that Raul Salinas may have consulted with 
these "witches" regarding the Colosio slaying. You will recall 
from the above that Raul is charged in connection with the murder 
of Ruiz Massieu: so why would he seek out the two "witches" in 
regard to the death of Colosio? Unless, that is, there actually 
*is* a link between the two slayings. According to Reuters, "El 
Financiero said one version of the information had Raul Salinas 
attempting to contact the spirit of Colosio to ask forgiveness 
for the killing."
 
You will recall from CN 6.67 that the brother of the assassinated 
Ruiz Massieu, Mario Ruiz Massieu, has been implicated in his 
brother's murder and is now under arrest here in the United 
States. Mario is accused of trying to hide the alleged mastermind 
of the murder -- Raul Salinas -- from justice. Prosecutors have 
now said that they "may reduce the amount of money they have 
accused him of stealing." This looks good for Mario, who is 
fighting extradition back to Mexico. (Reuters, 12/15/95, 
"Extradition Efforts Set Back In Mexican Case".) Mario Ruiz 
Massieu "has been held without bail since his arrest March 3 at 
Newark International Airport by U.S. Customs Service officers, 
who found he was carrying thousands of undeclared dollars as he 
was preparing to board a flight to Spain with his family," says 
Reuters.
 
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