(Editor's note: This corrects the initial press release, which contained a wrong telephone number for the teleconference replay.) NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Feb. 7, 2002--Standard&Poor's today upgraded its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the United Mexican States to triple-'B'-minus, an investment-grade rating, and upgraded other ratings as follows: -- The long-term local currency sovereign credit rating was upgraded to single-'A'-minus from triple-'B' plus; -- The long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating was upgraded to triple-'B'-minus from double-'B' plus; and -- The short-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating was upgraded to 'A-3' from single-'B'. Standard&Poor's affirmed Mexico's 'A-2' short-term local currency sovereign credit rating. The outlook assigned to all ratings has been revised to
