In the June 14 Voice column, Jesse Miravete states that in Mexico ”there is the need for new laws that permit individuals to start up or acquire businesses from the state without any cloudy ownership rules.” This is precisely what President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has been establishing since his inauguration less than two years ago.
The opening of the economy, Mexico`s entrance to the world trade and tariff agency GATT, the foreign debt renegotiations, the reprivatization of a great number of state-owned companies-particularly the recent change in the constitution to reprivatize banks-and the deregulation of the petro- chemical, communications and transportation sectors are clear examples of what is taking place in our country.
It would do Mr. Miravete some good to visit current-day Mexico so that he could see firsthand that a ”communist-oriented system”-as he erroneously perceives-does not exist in Mexico. What does exist in our country, since it became an independent nation, is a strong nationalist orientation. But, that is not equivalent to having a ”communist orientation,” as has been clearly seen in the current affairs of the European continent.
