Salinas to Visit UCSD Center
Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is scheduled to visit San Diego next month to discuss problems and opportunities along the border, an official of UC San Diego said.
The three-day trip to California will begin with a six-hour stopover in San Diego on Sept. 28, said Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UCSD.
The 43-year-old president also will visit Stanford University for a speech commemorating the university’s centennial, then go to Los Angeles to open an exhibition of Mexican art.
The trip is officially labeled a private visit rather than an official one because Salinas is traveling at the behest of UCSD and Stanford, not at the invitation of the U.S. government.
The San Diego visit will include a panel discussion at the UCSD center and a $250-a-plate luncheon address at the Hotel del Coronado to benefit the center’s endowment. Salinas’ address is expected to focus on the role of the San Diego-Tijuana region in the economic integration of the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Salinas last visited the United States in April, traveling to Houston, Boston, Chicago, Austin and San Antonio, to press for swift U.S. congressional approval of a free-trade pact with Mexico.
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