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...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...
Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party chose former Education Secretary Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon as its presidential candidate. Zedillo replaces Luis Donaldo Colosio, who was assassinated on March...
...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...