Word: colosio
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...Attorney General's office -- where the dead man's brother is deputy -- charges that Gonzalez hired the actual gumman, a 28-year-old horse trainer who's confessed. The congressman, now being sought by police, allegedly plotted the killing because Ruiz Massieu was a reformer -- just like Luis Donaldo Colosio, the PRI presidential candidate who was assassinated in March...
...young man with an unknown motive shot and killed the secretary-general of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), shocking officials just recovering from the March 23 assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. Political analysts told TIME Mexico reporter Elizabeth Love the death of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu might have less to do with Massieu's No. 2 role in the PRI than his tenure as governor of the province where the young suspect lives. Said one speculator: "Two assassinations do not conform a social tendency, but evidently Colosio's killing seemed to break a kind...
...Zedillo tries to get his campaign under way -- the formal launch takes place a week after Easter -- police and a special prosecutor are exploring the possibility of a wider conspiracy to kill Colosio. The FBI has been called in to help probe the background of gunman Mario Aburto Martinez, who once lived in San Pedro, California. Police arrested a second suspect last week: Tranquilino Sanchez Venegas, 56, a retired security guard, who had just joined Colosio's crowd-control force and is charged with complicity in the murder...
Assuming the investigation produces no shocking revelations that somehow implicate the P.R.I. in Colosio's death, Zedillo is a strong front runner for the August ballot. His two main rivals have yet to gather steam and his party, though not the monolith it used to be, is still dominant. And, of course, he wears the glowing mantle of the martyred Colosio...
Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party chose former Education Secretary Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon as its presidential candidate. Zedillo replaces Luis Donaldo Colosio, who was assassinated on March...