biography
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Zedillo (Ponce de Léon), Ernesto
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pronunciation:
[sedeelyoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1951– )
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| biography:
| Mexican president (1994–2000), born in Mexico City, Mexico. Educated at Bradford, Colorado, and Yale. He worked as an economist before serving as planning and budget minister (1988–92) and education minister (1992–3). A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he was acting as campaign manager for the party's candidate when the candidate was assassinated. Zedillo took his place and won the 1994 election by a significant margin. At a time of economic crisis for the country's banks, he brokered a deal with the USA, which was very unpopular, and the PRI lost the legislative elections held in 1997. |
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