SEXENNIAL CURSE.(Brief Article)

Every six years, Mexico holds presidential elections. Each time since 1976, the country has plunged into a financial crisis. To keep the markets calm during the upcoming election in 2000, the Mexican government unveiled a $24 billion financing program to ensure an "orderly transition." The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank and the, Inter-American Development Bank, among others, agreed to make the money available for the government's reserves in a bid to end the sexenn