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PREM19/1843
Mexico (Anglo-Mexican relations: internal situation in Mexico) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 229
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85 Jun 11 Tu Major Mexico: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting with President of Mexico”) [FCO briefing, card prompts for meeting itself] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tu Major Mexico: MT letter to President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico (Sicartsa Steel Project) [concern that proper provision for its finance will be made in National Plan] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 28 Tu Major Mexico: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Foreign Minister Sepulveda of Mexico) [Mexican economy, debt crisis, political situation in Latin America] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Mexico: FCO briefing for MT (“Call by Mexican Foreign Minister, 28 June”) [Central America, Mexican economic crisis] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 15 We Major Mexico: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Visit to UK of Mexican Foreign Minister”) [asks MT see him, to continue path of improving relations; MT agrees] [declassified 2014]
83 Feb 22 Tu Major Mexico: Pym minute to Lawson (“Visit to Mexico: Oil Prices”) [Mexicans and Venezuelans want dialogue between OPEC non-OPEC producers to achieve "a more orderly oil market"] [declassified 2014]
83 Feb 18 Fr Major Mexico: Pym telegram to FCO (meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid) [UK-Mexican relationship & economic situation] [declassified 2014]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“New Mexican Government Measures”) [addressing economic crisis] [declassified 2014]
82 Nov 25 Th Major Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Mexican Economic Crisis”) [Mexicans "pleased with the way things were now going. It showed that the international money system did work provided one played by the rules"] [declassified 2014]
82 Oct 21 Th Major Mexico: MT letter to President Lopez Portillo of Mexico (Mexican economic difficulties & IMF solutions) [“Mexico is a valued and important economic partner for Britain”] [declassified 2014]
82 Oct 20 We Major Mexico: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Mexico”) [update; fast changing situation, climate improving in last three weeks] [declassified 2014]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Mexican Economic Crisis”) ["slipping deeper … president continues to make loftily vacuous statements on almost everything except what matters … general mood of apprehension, cynicism and gloom"] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 29 We Major Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Mexican Economy”) [effect of bank nationalisation & imposition of full exchange controls] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 25 Sa Major Mexico: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO (“Mexico: Mr Onslow’s visit”) [conversation with Mexican President: Mexican economy, Central America and Belize, UK-Mexican relations] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 25 Sa Major Mexico: President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico letter to MT (International Meeting on Co-operation and Development: the Mexican economic situation) [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 11 Sa Major Mexico: No.10 minute to MT (message from Mexican Finance Minister to Governor of the Bank of England: talks with the IMF) [hopeful sign] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 9 Th Major Mexico: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Richardson) [“Mexico”: economic situation: update] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 9 Th Major Mexico: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS minute to Sir Ken Couzens (“Meeting with Mexican Finance Minister”) [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 8 We Major Mexico: UKHC Ottawa to FCO (“The Mexican Situation”) [IMF negotiations] [declassified 2014]
82 Sep 7 Tu Major Mexico: No.10 minute to MT (“Mexico”) [IMF negotiations] [declassified 2014]