Word: colosio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
TIME: There seems to be a sense in the streets that until the three murders [of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, Juan Jesus Cardinal Posadas and P.R.I. secretary-general Josa Francisco Ruiz Massieu] are solved, it will be difficult for you to govern. Zedillo: According to the information provided to me by the Attorney General, the Ruiz Massieu case is practically solved, and the Posadas case seems to be nearly solved. In the Colosio case, we have made progress to the extent that we now believe there was a second shooter. But we haven't been able to find anything...
Zedillo: Well, I couldn't govern if I were afraid. Obviously right after Colosio's assassination my family and I were very concerned. I wouldn't like to use the word frightened, but we were very concerned. Little by little and despite incidents during the presidential campaign, we learned not to be afraid...
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...
...President must tread carefully. While Zedillo's own distance from the political Old Guard makes it easier for him to reform the system, many Mexicans wonder if he is too naive to understand the risks involved in taking on the men in the shadows. Colosio and Ruiz Massieu may have been killed, after all, simply for threatening to reduce the power of the mighty. Zedillo has already gone beyond that by threatening to punish the mighty...