Word: colosio
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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...