The Quinazo, what will not?

Monterrey, Mexico .- On January 10 will be fulfilled 19 years of bazooka that union empire collapsed Joaquin Hernandez Galicia and the start of a six-year period ended with the murder of a candidate for the Presidency and the outbreak of economic crisis that impoverished millions of Mexicans.

On the morning of that day, the soldiers who carried out the most publicized arrest in the past two decades, had cut the phone lines and that of the daughters and the wife of Hernández Galicia, and had lists of weapons that they "planted?.

All Mexico was shocked by the birth of the new form of politics: that same year he went on his "will? the teachers' union leader, Carlos Jonguitud labor sector and the old coming years understood that forced change.

It was the time the modernization of social and political structures as well 19 years ago was privatized gold mine Carlos Slim: Telefonos de Mexico in the wave of privatization in Latin America.

Today little remains to be privatized and public finances are fed by oil prices and on remittances sent from our countrymen that the United States.

Does the reader remember when in 1987 the then national leader of the oil, Salvador Barragan Camacho snapped the President Miguel de la Madrid: "If Pemex is sinking, sinking you Mr. President??.

The threat was suspended in the presidential succession and the six candidates who sounded. Carlos Salinas de Gortari was the winner and become president the first thing he did was bring down the oil empire of La Quina and allied leaders.

A 19 years away, the capital's print versions ran on what would be the Quinazo the current President Felipe Calderon. But they are parties and different styles.

Today the army used to fight organized crime and took Quinazo historical dimension of the political system that was, but lurking for a chance to return ...

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"In politics, there is no friendship worth?, Said Fidel Velazquez, then leader of the CTM after learning of the arrest of La Quina.