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...Mexico City house last Tuesday morning and began ringing the front doorbell. The high-level official, laden with documents, tapes and videos, was bringing evidence that a dramatic new lead had surfaced in the investigation into the murder of one of Mexico's most powerful politicians, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, who was gunned down last September outside a Mexico City hotel...
...charge. The former President's brother Raul, he said, had ``co-authored'' the crime with another politician, who had previously been identified as the sole mastermind of the killing. The charges were doubly shocking given the personal links between the two: Raul's sister was once married to Ruiz Massieu and Raul is godfather to the couple's daughter...
...charged last fall with organizing the murder, Munoz Rocha has eluded an international manhunt, and some investigators believe he may be dead. His motive was thought to be political: the legislator allegedly told associates that his ambitions to become a state governor had been thwarted by Ruiz Massieu. Munoz Rocha appeared to belong to a group of P.R.I. hacks known as the ``dinosaurs,'' old-timers wedded to the party's authoritarian ways whose power was threatened by Salinas' push for economic and political reforms--a push that both Colosio and Ruiz Massieu had committed themselves to advancing...
...less from politics than from personal animus and the clash between powerful egos. Government sources say Raul, who has lived in the shadow of his younger brother ever since their father began grooming Carlos for national politics, deeply resented his hard-driving, often arrogant former brother-in-law. Ruiz Massieu was supposed to have sometimes been openly disdainful of Raul. The hostility between the two men may have deepened in recent years with Ruiz Massieu's attempt to damage business dealings by Raul. The President's brother was a controversial figure who held high government posts, including membership...
...week's end Chapa had still not publicly produced evidence actually linking Raul Salinas to the accused gunman or to the web of alleged conspirators jailed by the previous special prosecutor. He was none other than Ruiz Massieu's brother Mario. Mario Ruiz Massieu had quit his post as Deputy Attorney General and the P.R.I. last November, claiming the party was hindering his investigation. But on Wednesday Chapa declared that his team had found ``errors'' in Mario Ruiz Massieu's investigation, suggesting that he had helped cover up Raul's role in the case. The murdered politician's brother spent...