{"article":{"id":4874,"heading":"Bush Media outtakes\/commentary\/reporting","author":"Vindicator","created":"2000-12-14 17:37:13","modified":"2000-12-14 18:00:00","last_modified":"Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:00:00","article":"

(Fwd: from a listserve)

Subject: Re: Fw: Independent Media Center - please post documented Bush articles here

Brian, from your link......

3. What links to Raul Salinas de Gortiari? ...

According to the Houston Chronicle and the Ledger

(Lakeland, Florida) Jeb Bush (brother of George W)

--before becoming Governor of the Sunshine State-- was

a close friend of Raul Salinas de Gortiari, and brother of

former President of Mexico Carlos Salinas. Raul --who

was a leading member of the Mexican Drug Cartel-- is

now serving a 27 year jail term for having murdered a

political opponent:

There has also been a great deal of speculation in Mexico

about the exact nature of Raul Salinas' close friendship

with former President George Bush's son, Jeb. It is well

known here that for many years the two families spent

vacations together -- the Salinases at Jeb Bush's home in

Miami, the Bushes at Raul's ranch, Las Mendocinas, under

the volcano in Puebla. There are many in Mexico who

believe that the relationship became a back channel for

delicate and crucial negotiations between the two

governments, leading up to President Bush's sponsorship of

NAFTA. (Houston Chronicle, 9 March 1995)

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