TY - BOOK AU - Kraft,Joseph TI - The Mexican rescue AV - HJ8519 .K73 1984 U1 - 336.3'4'0972 PY - 1984/// CY - New York PB - Group of Thirty KW - Debts, External KW - Loans, Foreign KW - International finance KW - Mexico N2 - It is a journalist's account of what actually happened after the Mexican bombshell dropped on the world's banking system in August 1982. It describes how the major institutions of the international monetary system responded to the challenge. It shows in dramatic form and perhaps for the first time the extraordinary range of difficulties, misunderstandings and personality conflicts that have to be managed in the course of such an operation. In the words of the author, this is the story of the Mexican rescue ER -