Breathe
By Lillian Briseño
This year marks three decades of what has been, perhaps, one of the most convulsive years in Mexico's recent history from a social and political point of view.
To quote what the Queen of England said in another context, 1994 was an annus horribilis for Mexico and, above all, for the then President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who, it was said, even entertained the idea of reelection given the supposedly good results the country was presenting to the world up to that time.
And no wonder. An economic crisis that had hit Mexico for at least the last two six years had been reversed or controlled; an atmosphere of recovery was evident in investments in various sectors and capital that arrived in the country taking advantage of the high interest rates being paid, and Solidarity had become one of the most important and successful social programs in history, leaving behind the now obsolete agrarian reform that belonged to another era.
