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Hector Roberto Rocha...
...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...
...broken-down fence between Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, California, stretches directly in front of David Gomez Rocha's plywood shack. Seven days a week the 28-year-old rises at 3 a.m. for a two-hour trip across the border to pick asparagus for $4.25 an hour. Granted amnesty in 1987, Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals...
...meeting two weeks ago between house committees and the council, various plans to help with the houses' financial burdens were discussed, Rocha said...