TITLE

The $55 billion bank-bailout scandal

AUTHOR(S)
ROSEN, FRED
PUB. DATE
November 1998
SOURCE
NACLA Report on the Americas;Nov/Dec98, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p11
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Details the bank-bailout scandal in Mexico. Information on the Banking Fund to Protect Savings (Fobaproa); Involvement of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the scandal; Details on Mexico's banking problems.
ACCESSION #
1373479

Tags: BANKING industry;  PARTIDO Revolucionario Institucional;  SCANDALS;  POLITICAL corruption

 

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