When did Carlos Salinas de Gortari serve as President of Mexico?
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Salinas continued with the neoliberal economic policy of his predecessor Miguel de la Madrid and converted Mexico into a regulatory state. During his presidential term, the banking system (that had been nationalized by José López Portillo) was privatized, as well as the national phone company TELMEX.[5]