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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranks. The Garcia Abrego family, the purported leaders of the once dominant Gulf cartel that controls drug trade along Mexico's east coast, have recently received arrest warrants from the Mexican Attorney General's office for an alleged -- but as yet unproved -- connection to the murder of Josa Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the deputy attorney general of the country's ruling political party. The heads of the Tijuana cartel, the Arrellano Falix brothers, have also come under pressure for their suspected role in accidentally gunning down a bishop in Guadalajara. (The real target of the shooting is thought to have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD NEIGHBORS | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...Mexican government is seeking the extradition from the U.S. of former deputy attorney general Mario Ruiz Massieu. Ruiz Massieu, who served as his country's top drug-enforcement official, is accused of blocking the investigation of his brother's murder (his brother had been the No. 2 man in Mexico's ruling P.R.I. party) and is suspected of taking money from drug traffickers. The government asked the U.S. to freeze more than $7 million deposited by Ruiz Massieu in American banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: MARCH 5-11 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...addition, Salinas's brother was arrested last month in connection with the murder of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, general-secretary of Mexico's ruling party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Office Denies Salinas Deal | 3/14/1995 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPREADING SCANDAL | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...President must tread carefully. While Zedillo's own distance from the political Old Guard makes it easier for him to reform the system, many Mexicans wonder if he is too naive to understand the risks involved in taking on the men in the shadows. Colosio and Ruiz Massieu may have been killed, after all, simply for threatening to reduce the power of the mighty. Zedillo has already gone beyond that by threatening to punish the mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPREADING SCANDAL | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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