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Carlos Salinas' file will be made public

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Carlos Salina's public file will by ready in late August - Photo: Lucia Godínez/EL UNIVERSAL
07/07/2019 |09:40
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Carlos Salinas' file will be made public

We've been told that those working overtime are the General Archive 's employees since they have to hide the names of politicians, military officials, nicknames, age, and other sensible information contained in Carlos Salinas de Gortari's archive . We've been told that the employees are working long hours to create a public version of the archive of the former President between 1980 and 1984 when he worked as an academic and the head of the Planning and Budget Ministry . Sources claim that there reviewing thousands of pages and that Carlos Salina's public file will be ready in late August .

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