Ruling Party Candidate Warns of Mexico’s Growth
The presidential nominee of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party said Wednesday that the overcrowded Mexico City metropolitan area cannot continue growing to the detriment of its inhabitants and the finances of the rest of the country.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who is virtually certain to win the July 6 presidential election, promised supporters at a conference on the Challenge of Mexico City that he would modernize the infrastructure of the capital to try to solve the problems of air pollution, public services, security, housing, financing, education and culture.
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