Word: assassin
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...assassin stood unnoticed in the crowd. He listened as the man he was stalking pledged to help poor people, like the 3,000 gathered in a ramshackle neighborhood near Tijuana's airport. After a chorus of vivas, the candidate stepped down from the platform and, in his populist campaign style, waded into the crush to shake hands. The assassin edged up behind him, thrust a .38-cal. pistol at his head and fired. The bullet smashed through the candidate's skull, shattering his brain. Then the gunman leaned over and fired another bullet into the fallen man's stomach...
...turmoil after the shooting, the crowd pounced on the assassin, screaming "Kill him!" and beat the man fiercely before plainclothes police hauled him away. The following morning investigators announced that the killer was Mario Aburto Martinez, 23, a poor factory mechanic who lived alone and had no obvious political links. They said he had confessed to the shooting but refused to reveal his motive...
Rumors blamed everyone: Colosio's party rivals had planned the killing, or Tijuana's notorious drug gangs did it. No one seemed to know whether there was a conspiracy or if the assassin was another of the solitary, deranged killers who disfigure history. Mexicans reacted not only with horror and outrage but also with something close to fear. No matter what the motive, the public murder of a leading politician inflicted a national trauma, a sense of disorientation that came with the recognition that things were not what they so comfortingly seemed...
...relatively low profile, his intelligence and preparation left no doubt as to his capability to handle the job. Last night, the lifetime of hard work that put him behind the podium in front of a crowd also exposed him to the bullets of a 23-year-old assassin...
...know where this assassin came from, but if he considers himself an advocate of social justice, he might want to consider that his form of 'cure' could be worse than the disease. Mexico has worked hard at attaining the stability necessary to attract and nurture foreign investment, perhaps, a harbinger of better living conditions for all Mexicans...