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...left his post to lead the presidential campaign of PRI candidate Louis Donaldo Colosio and took over as candidate when Colosio was assassinated in March of 1994. Zedillo assumed the presidency in December of 1994 and ran what Professor Coatsworth called a “transparent government...
Espinoza left Mexico City in 1994 after the assassination of reformist presidential candidate Luis D. Colosio, under whom Espinoza was director of private affairs...
...your hunger strike, was there any trade-off between you and Zedillo's government? SALINAS: I didn't ask for any special treatment The hunger strike was necessary because the nomenklatura was pushing for a judicial order to arrest me. They were ready to go against me in the Colosio case (in which the PRI presidential candidate in 1994 was assassinated). Why would I want this? The death of Colosio caused the most severe political and economic crisis within my administration. We lost $10 bn in capital flight immediately after his death. The country was at the brink of disaster...
...would like to think that we have reached a time when political assassinations have been supplanted by less rash means of resolving conflicts. Perhaps we might say, after witnessing the killings of Luis Donaldo Colosio and Yitzhak Rabin, that such incidents occur only in more volatile areas of the world than our own country. But even in the United States, where our own citizens also turned to murder for political ends in Oklahoma City, we are not immune. The anger we felt at Americans who killed Americans gives us a hint of what Israelis striving for peace feel today...
Zedillo: I consider that accusation totally unfair. We had two victims in 1994: Mexico and the Institutional Revolutionary Party. I find accusations that the P.R.I. as an organization was involved in [the Colosio] assassination to be offensive. There's nothing that has emerged in the evidence that could give support to the accusation...