Word: donaldo
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...first shot not only killed Luis Donaldo Colosio, the ruling party's handpicked successor to Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, but it also crippled the confidence of a country striving to enter the select company of First World nations. The murder was the latest blow in a year that has . brought violent rebellion, economic uncertainty and political disruption to a land whose citizens believed they had achieved peace and stability. Mexicans grieved not just for Colosio but for themselves and a future they now viewed with trepidation. In the weeks ahead, they will discover whether their institutions and maturity...
...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...
...father called me last night at 1:30 a.m. "They killed Colosio tonight," he said. Luis Donaldo Colosio was the presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that has been in power since the Mexican Revolution early this century. He was shot last night in the head and stomach as he addressed a crowd in Tijuana, and he died three hours later. I listened in a state of shocked disbelief...
Salinas' delicate handling of the popular Zapatista demands has so far proved politically shrewd. He salvaged his reformist image, and his handpicked P.R.I. presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, retains a 60%-to-27% lead over his closest rival. But the policy could still backfire. There is widespread speculation that Camacho, a respected former mayor of Mexico City who was passed over in the presidential sweepstakes, might use the Zapatista negotiation as a springboard to an independent presidential bid. Many ruling party faithful blame Salinas' concessions in Chiapas for a sharp increase in strikes and demonstrations across the nation. Indians...