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Miguel de la Madrid—Head of Government

Birth

Miguel de la Madrid (1982-1988) was born in Colima but moved to Mexico City when he was two years old.

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (born December 12, 1934) was President of Mexico, from the PRI, from December 1, 1982 to December 1, 1988.

Work

His career developed completely within the financial sector of the government. ... His strongest connection was with Raœl Salinas Lozano, a member of a powerful clique including Margain and Beteta.

Miguel de la Madrid will meet next week with the United States Treasury Secretary, James A. Baker 3d, and the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, to discuss Mexico's debt crisis and related economic problems, Mexican and foreign officials said today.

De la Madrid studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He worked for Mexico's central bank and taught law at the UNAM before securing a position at the treasury in 1965. Between 1970 and 1972 he was employed by Pemex, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company, after which he held several other bureaucratic posts in the government of Luis ...

Miguel de la Madrid, Mexico’s president from 1982 to 1988, and Carlos Salinas, president from 1988 to 1994, dubbed the technocrat presidents of the country, were Harvard-educated economists who brought with them a wind of open-market privatization.

In the end, President Miguel de la Madrid turned to the Yalies, in part because they had personal connections with the officials at the IMF and U.S. Treasury with whom Mexico had to negotiate.

The Mexican government of Miguel de la Madrid (1982 1988 eventually recognized El Salvadors democratically elected government and thus eased a major.source of irritation between the U.S. and Mexico.

discussion with President Miguel de la Madrid in Mexico about the debt crisis of the developing nations had effected him deeply, and he began to think about partial debt relief.