Word: rauling
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Fourteen suspects were already in custody for the crime, so Chapa astonished the journalists with his final 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...
...original author of the crime was allegedly Manuel Munoz Rocha, a P.R.I. legislator from the state of Tamaulipas whose ties to Raul Salinas go back to their university days. Ever since he was 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...
Chapa called the relationship between Munoz Rocha and Raul Salinas ``close'' and cited phone records and testimony of witnesses to document their ``discreet but consistent'' contact before and after the murder. Chapa said Munoz Rocha made two calls from a hideout in the suburb of Pachuca afterward; the first was to Raul Salinas. Before he disappeared in Pachuca on Sept. 29, Munoz Rocha visited the home of Raul Salinas. Finally, Chapa added, Munoz Rocha had told his secretary that Raul Salinas ordered and financed the murder...
...question the prosecutor did not answer was Raul's motive for the crime. Friends and some government officials intimate that if Raul Salinas is guilty, his involvement may stem 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...
...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...