Word: hurtado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1987 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado unveiled Salinas as the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate for 1988, anointing him as crown prince. But his struggle was not over. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the son of a venerated former President, broke with the P.R.I. and ran a populist campaign that drew unexpectedly strong support. Partisans insisted that Cardenas won and that the 50.3% of the vote credited to Salinas was the result of massive fraud. Though election chicanery is commonplace in Mexico, Salinas is the first President to have the legitimacy of his mandate widely questioned...
...physicians interested in emergency care as a specialty. The goal was not entirely altruistic: the hope was that most accident victims would be middle class and well insured. "A lot of hospitals looked to trauma victims as $250,000 pieces of meat, and everyone wanted them," says Fred Hurtado, president of the United Paramedics of Los Angeles...
...municipal elections. Pizarro Leon-Gomez hopes to become mayor of Bogota; Navarro Wolf mayor of Cali. But they face a serious obstacle: impending trials for crimes that include the spectacular 1985 takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice and the 1988 kidnaping of former presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. Gomez was released unharmed eight weeks later...