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1995: Mexico
After half a decade of roaring along the road to industrial development, Mexico crashed into a ditch in 1995, following a plunge in the value of the peso in late 1994. Former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who left office just before the peso's plunge, fled the country in March, and his...
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