Word: colosio
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...Congressional delegation visits Colosio assassination site...
...DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, his campaign manager sounded distinctly reluctant to claim his role as the governing party's new man. Addressing the assembled crowd at party headquarters, the freshly anointed candidate, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, chose to stand in front of a floor-to-ceiling photo of Colosio and wrap himself in the shroud of the martyred hero. "We are not starting a campaign. We are continuing one. Colosio was the best man for Mexico," he said in an 18-min. speech that mentioned the slain politician's name 38 times...
...strategy was not subtle: Zedillo, 42, is appealing to his countrymen's desire for stability and continuity. In the wake of the violent peasant uprising in Chiapas last January, Colosio's assassination has led to a collective sense of unease. Though Zedillo was President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's first choice as the new candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico for 65 years, he is little known and woefully short on charisma...
Ironically, Colosio's murder may have given the ruling party a boost. His candidacy had not caught fire, and his image suffered by comparison with Camacho's. Now the fallen Colosio is being elevated to martyrdom, with supporters in his home state calling his death "Sonora's version of the John F. Kennedy assassination." Mourners gathered in the giant square in front of party headquarters in Mexico City, carrying banners with Colosio's name. "Justice! Justice!" they cried. Now the party may reap a sympathy vote. "Yesterday," declared Reforma columnist Raymundo Riva Palacio the day after the assassination, "the P.R.I...
Luis Donaldo Colosio, who was widely expected to win the Mexican presidency in August elections, was shot and killed while campaigning in Tijuana. Police arrested a suspect at the scene, who later confessed; the assassination was apparently not linked to the peasant uprising in Chiapas state that began in January. Ernesto Zedillo, Colosio's campaign manager, is now considered one of the leading contenders to replace Colosio as the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), as is the P.R.I. chief, Fernando Ortiz Arana...