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...Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas had chosen as his successor. Now, formerly timid critics are blaming him, in part, for the Dec. 20 devaluation that sent the peso plummeting...
Zedillo, who was hurriedly designated the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate last year after the party's first choice, Luis Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated, could be forgiven if he feels as if he has fallen through a trapdoor. He took office a few days before a financial crisis erupted that his predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, had done little to prepare either Zedillo or the nation for. But Zedillo's performance so far has not reassured the foreign-government officials and financiers who will have to bail Mexico out. The Clinton Administration, says a Senate staff member who regularly deals with...
...worst shock was the March assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Salinas' hand-picked successor. As a replacement, Salinas pressed the party's Old Guard to choose his Education Minister and Colosio's campaign manager, Zedillo, a Yale-educated technocrat. As a campaigner, Zedillo was so colorless that at one rally his wife had to nudge him to throw his arms into the air and shout "Viva Mexico!" at the appropriate moment. But he was committed to the Salinas reforms. Then in September came another blow: the killing of Zedillo's main...
...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...