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Washington -- Top Clinton Administration officials have met with the two leading candidates in Colombia's presidential elections, Ernesto Samper and Andres Pastrana, to warn them that the CALI DRUG CARTEL -- which controls 80% of the global cocaine market -- is trying to channel drug money into their campaigns to gain influence. "We are deeply worried about a narcodemocracy developing," says a senior U.S. official. Another concern: DEA and State Department officers believe sensitive information provided to Colombian prosecutors has leaked to the cartel and may have led to the deaths of family members of anti-Cali witnesses. So strong is American...
...peso. "Fundamentally," Bill Clinton said, "I think they are in sound shape." When Mexico City's market reopened Friday, the stock index -- which has been volatile all year -- initially plunged 100 points but recovered to a loss of less than 1%. "We'll see several weeks of turbulence," predicts Ernesto Cervera, an analyst at a Mexico City consulting firm. Some experts say the market may be unsettled until the August election makes it clear who will be running the country and whether free-market policies continue...
Camacho repeated what he had said on Tuesday, that he had no intention of seeking the presidency. With Salinas' support, he could still get the nomination, but speculation now centers on Ernesto Zedillo, the murdered candidate's campaign manager, and Fernando Ortiz Arana, the president of P.R.I. There are other potential candidates among the Cabinet ministers, but party rules say the nominee must not have held senior government positions in the six months before the election -- and voting is now closer than that...
...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...
Speaking to a crowd of 250, Ernesto Zedillo discussed his attempt to change primary and secondary education levels in Mexico...