'Red sun' still shines over rural Peru

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The Maoist Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path, ronderos, drug traffickers and the army all organise road blocks in Peru. Shining Path is organised in local cells so it continues to operate despite the capture of the chairman Abimael Guzman on Sep 12, 92. Shining Path control land on the eastern river bank with the MRTA. The urban network is weaker and failed to disrupt the Nov elections as they had promised. President Fujimori's pacification policy is unlikely to stop people backing the guerillas.

Military aspects, Peru, Guerrillas, Drug traffic, Shining Path (Peru)

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Salinas presides over an era of modernisation

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico since 1988, created an open economy with the first budget surplus in 1991. Relations with the US are good and the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) is intended to cement the alliance. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has controlled the country in nationalist style since 1929. Responsibility for economic growth now rests with the private sector. The Brady plan debt reduction programme eroded the debt crisis.

Political activity, Political aspects, Salinas de Gortari, Carlos

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Mexico trade revolution in balance

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Mexico aims to join the First World by adopting free-market policies. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has introduced economic reforms since he came to power in 1988. Mexico's inflation has come down to 13% and it has a budget surplus for the first time. The outcome of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) will affect these reforms. Nafta would phase out tariffs and force Mexico to compete with richer countries, making its industries bankrupt.

Economic policy

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