President Salinas' free trade agreement initiative is not the product of vision and courage, but rather a desperate attempt to find an overnight solution to 60 years of neglect, incompetence and abuse that has produced discontent among Mexican people and has seriously undermined the ruling party's (PRI) grip on power.
Salinas' failure to properly address grave domestic problems ranging from an exploding population growth (expected to double by the year 2010) to widespread corruption, nepotism and inefficiency in government and industry makes his free trade proposal questionable at best.
