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...former Mexican president withdrew his candidacy earlier this month when his brother was arrested in connection with the assassination of the secretary-general of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu...
...Most Wanted Fugitives" list, the first time an international drug trafficker ever made the roster. Juan Garcia-Abrego, whose Gulf Cartel has shipped tons of Colombian cocaine to the U.S., is under investigation for bribing a former Mexican deputy attorney general to protect his organization. That official, Mario Ruiz Massieu, is now the center of a massive corruption scandal that has shakenMexicoto the core. Ruiz Massieu's brother, a top political official, was murdered in September, allegedly in a plot masterminded by the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Ruiz Massieu is suspected of taking part...
...rally his wife had to nudge him to throw his arms into the air and shout "Viva Mexico!" at the appropriate moment. But he was committed to the Salinas reforms. Then in September came another blow: the killing of Zedillo's main political adviser, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu...
Still, most Mexicans found his claims plausible. Virtually everyone accused of involvement so far has family, business or political ties to the northern state of Tamaulipas, which is the base for a ring of drug traffickers known as the Gulf Cartel. Indeed, it was Ruiz Massieu himself who headed the government's antidrug efforts and led a crackdown against the cartel, publicly targeting its elusive chief, Juan Gracia Abrego. Now Abrego stands accused of having put up the $330,000 allegedly paid for the assassination...
P.R.I. officials were outraged last week not so much by Ruiz Massieu's message as by the grandstand manner in which he delivered it. His move has served to push the issue into the lap of the incoming President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who will be inaugurated this week. Although a political cartoon last week depicted Zedillo nervously kicking away a ticking time bomb, it is almost certain that he will have to respond to the accusations against leaders of his party, many of whom were once expected to get top jobs when he took office. Like...