Word: donaldo
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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...
...Salinas staged a hunger strike this monthuntil the government cleared him of any wrongdoingin the 1994 assassination of former presidentialcandidate Luis Donaldo Colosio...
...brother 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...