Editing Carlos Salinas de Gortari (section)

==Post-Presidential years==
[[File:Salinasllavero95.JPG|200px|thumb|Key chain promoting a symbolic "People's Trial" for Salinas de Gortari, set for 14 May 1995, organized by the "Liga Mexicana Anticorrupción".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Orgambides |first1=Fernando |title=Un 'juicio popular' declara culpable al ex presidente Salinas de Gortari |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1995/05/16/internacional/800575220_850215.html |access-date=23 June 2021 |publisher=El País |date=15 May 1995}}</ref>]]
Salinas's reputation was to be further clouded by a series of controversies involving close family members. His brother Raúl had been arrested in February 1995. In November 1995, Raúl's wife, [[:es:Paulina Castañón|Paulina Castañón]], and his brother-in-law, [[Antonio Castañón]], were arrested in [[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]], after attempting to withdraw US$84 million from an account owned by Raúl Salinas under an alias. Their capture led to the unveiling of a vast fortune spread around the world and amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, even though Raúl Salinas had never officially received an annual income of more than $190,000. A report by the U.S. [[General Accounting Office]] indicated that Raúl Salinas had transferred over $90 million out of Mexico into private bank accounts in London and Switzerland through a complex set of transactions between 1992 and 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/os99001.pdf|title=PRIVATE BANKING : Raul Salinas, Citibank, and Alleged Money Laundering|website=Gao.gov|access-date=2 December 2018|archive-date=21 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821131638/http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/os99001.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2008, the government of Switzerland turned over $74 million, out of the $110 million in frozen bank accounts held by Raúl Salinas, to the government of Mexico. The Swiss Justice Ministry indicated that the Mexican government had demonstrated that $66 million of the funds had been misappropriated, and the funds, with interest, were returned to Mexico. The Salinas family would not receive back any of the frozen funds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Salinas_funds_finally_head_back_to_Mexico.html?cid=6740256 |title=Switzerland will return blocked Salinas funds to Mexico – swissinfo |website=Swissinfo.ch |date=2008-06-18 |access-date=2012-02-16}}</ref>

In 1997, while Salinas was in exile and his brother Raúl in jail, their father, Raúl Salinas Lozano was accused in a U.S court of being connected to drug dealing by a convicted Mexican trafficker, Magdalena Ruiz Pelayo; the senior Salinas denied the charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/31/world/scandal-pushes-powerful-family-from-pinnacle-in-mexico.html|title=Scandal Pushes Powerful Family from Pinnacle in Mexico|newspaper=The New York Times|date=31 October 1997|last1=Preston|first1=Julia|last2=Truell|first2=Peter}}</ref>

Salinas divorced his first wife, Cecilia Occelli González, in 1995 soon after leaving office. That same year he married his second wife, Ana Paula Gerard.<ref name=cg/>

In January 1999, after a four-year trial, Salinas' older brother Raúl was convicted of ordering the murder of the PRI official (and Salinas' brother-in-law) [[José Francisco Ruiz Massieu]] and sentenced to 50 years in prison. In July 1999, an appeals court cut the sentence to {{frac|27|1|2}} years. In June 2005, the conviction was overturned, and Raúl Salinas was freed.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bruce |first1=Ian |title=Mexico frees ex-leader's brother |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4079372.stm |work=BBC News |date=10 June 2005 }}</ref>

On 6 December 2004, Salinas's youngest brother, [[Enrique Salinas|Enrique]], was found dead in [[Huixquilucan]], [[Estado de México]], inside his car with a plastic bag strapped around his head. The case remains unsolved.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McKinley |first1=James C. |title=Killing of Ex-President's Brother Is Still a Mexican Mystery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/world/americas/killing-of-expresidents-brother-is-still-a-mexican-mystery.html |work=The New York Times |date=10 December 2005 }}</ref>

In the last years of Zedillo's term, Carlos Salinas returned to Mexico to announce the publication of his book, ''Mexico: The Policy and the Politics of Modernization''.<ref>Carlos Salinas de Gortari, ''Mexico: The Policy and Politics of Modernization'', translated by Peter Hearn and Patricia Ross. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés 2002.{{pn|date=May 2022}}</ref> Written during his stay in Ireland and full of quotations from press articles and political memoirs, it defended his achievements and blamed Zedillo for the crisis that followed his administration.

[[File:Carlos Salinas.jpg|thumb|left|Salinas de Gortari in 2006]]

As of May 2010, Salinas was still living in [[Dublin]], Ireland. Salinas also attended his son's civil wedding in Mexico City and promised to attend the subsequent religious wedding in late September.<ref name="CSG">{{cite web|url=http://salinasdegortari.blogspot.mx/2010/01/cercano-enrique-pena-nieto.html|title=''Cercano a Enrique Peña Nieto''|publisher=Carlos Salinas de Gortari: El padrino político de Enrique Peña Nieto|date=4 January 2010|language=es|access-date=10 April 2012|quote=No lo digo yo. Lo dicen los periodistas Francisco Cruz Jiménez y Jorge Toribio Montiel en su libro "Negocios de familia: la biografía no autorizada de Enrique Peña Nieto y el Grupo Atlacomulco" publicado por editorial Planeta.}}</ref><ref name="Negocios">{{cite book|last=Cruz|first=Francisco|title=Negocios de Familia: la Biografía no Autorizada de Enrique Peña Nieto y el Grupo Atlacomulco|publisher=Editorial [[Planeta Group|Planeta]]|year=2009|edition=11|isbn=978-607-07-0172-6|url=http://www.planeta.com.mx/descripcion_libro/2515|language=es|access-date=2012-04-10|quote=Enrique Peña Nieto se perfila como la carta más fuerte para enarbolar la candidatura presidencial del PRI en 2012. La trayectoria de Peña Nieto es también la de una gran familia: los apellidos Peña, Montiel, Nieto, Del Mazo, Fabela, González, Vélez, Sánchez y Colín, han dado al Estado de México seis gobernadores, todos ellos unidos por sólidos lazos familiares y de poder. Se han valido de la corrupción, compra de lealtades, imposiciones y otras maniobras similares para conservar y heredar el mando de generación en generación, a pesar de algunos intervalos. Como actual gobernador del Estado de México, Peña Nieto se ha convertido en la cabeza visible del Grupo Atlacomulco; su ascenso fue labrado escrupulosamente y está lejos de ser una obra del azar o una maniobra caprichosa de su antecesor Arturo Montiel. Negocios de familia desentraña la verdad detrás de la carismática figura de Peña Nieto y el entramado político para alcanzar la Presidencia de la República. La presencia cercana de Carlos Salinas de Gortari: llegó muy puntual al funeral de Enrique Peña del Mazo (padre de Peña Nieto), al velorio de Mónica Pretelini Sáenz, sus visitas secretas a la Casa de Gobierno, su asistencia a la toma de protesta de Peña Nieto.}}</ref>

Salinas returned to Mexico in the late 1990s and has continued to influence Mexican politics since then.<ref>{{Cite news | title = El poder de Salinas | date = 2015-11-18 | publisher = Vanguardia | url = https://www.vanguardia.com.mx/articulo/el-poder-de-salinas | language = es | access-date = 9 March 2018 | archive-date = 27 March 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090901/https://vanguardia.com.mx/articulo/el-poder-de-salinas | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | title = MONITOR POLÍTICO: EL PODER DE CARLOS SALINAS | date = 2018-01-08 | publisher = Periódico Express| url = http://www.periodicoexpress.com.mx/monitor-politico-el-poder-de-carlos-salinas/| language = es }}</ref> In April 2018, he celebrated his 70th birthday with a party attended by a number of political elites.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aldiadallas.com/2018/04/09/carlos-salinas-de-gortari-celebro-su-cumpleanos-70-rodeado-de-la-clase-politica-de-mexico/ |title=Carlos Salinas de Gortari celebró su cumpleaños 70 rodeado de la clase política de México |website=www.aldiadallas.com |date= 9 April 2018|access-date=27 March 2019}}</ref> On 5 December 2018, he attended [[Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush|George H. W. Bush's funeral]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/global/carlos-salinas-de-gortari-honra-a-bush-padre-en-washington/1282864|title = Carlos Salinas de Gortari honra a Bush padre en Washington|date = 5 December 2018}}</ref>