Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Raul Salinas de Gortari

Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Raul Salinas de Gortari

In recent weeks, Mexicans were glued to their televisions to watch a tale of drugs,

corruption and murder. It was a “telenovela”, one of Latin America’s countless soap operas. But,

unlike most, this one, on the upstart Azteca channel, had heard of politics: to be exact, of the

intrigue around ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and his brother Raul Salinas de Gortari. It

even started with the murder of an attorney-general, have displaced the “telenovela”. President

Ernesto Zedillo dumped his attorney-general, Antonio Lozano, a lawyer from the right-wing

opposition PAN, The National Action Party.1

Lozano gets some evidence on Raul

Mr. Lozano’s bid to solve the later murder of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, a top PRI

official, had done not that good. He surprised many by ordering the arrest in early 1995 of Raul

Salinas de Gortari, as the alleged mastermind, but failed to convict him. It looked as if he might

get the evidence he needed, when his men found a decaying corpse at a ranch owned by Raul. Mr.

Lozano tipped off reporters.2 His men suggested these were the remains of a missing

congressman, Raul’s supposed accomplice.

The finding of mysterious money on Raul

Could it be that, even in failure, Mr. Lozano had gone too far? Swiss investigators, and

others elsewhere later, turned up millions of dollars in secret accounts controlled by Raul Salinas

de Gortari.3 Just where had the money come from? Drugs? Influence-pedding? And if so, the

natural question was, influence with whom? The natural answer was not made natural by brother

Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s flight from the country after Raul’s arrest. The ex-president, by then

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...lains mainly

how the Raul Salinas de Gortari case got started. Robinson explains how Mr.

Lozano got involved in this case. Robinson also tells how Mr. Lozano got

some evidence to prosecute Raul Salinas de Gortari. This is an interesting

article that compares this case to a “Mexican telenovela” (soap opera).

Smith, G., He put his trust in Switzerland and Citibank. Frontline, volume 114,

pages 15-20. October 25, 1996.

This article contains mainly most of the interrogation answers asked to

Raul Salinas de Gortari by the Swiss prosecutors. Smith gets some real good

information of how Raul Salinas de Gortari explained his millions of dollars in

fictious names on phony bank accounts. It also contains information of

Raul’s suspicions concerning Amy Elliot. This article contains the most

important facts of the Raul Salinas de Gortari case.