Word: ruiz
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...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...
...hope for is to reduce the rebels' support through continued political and economic concessions. Given the region's poverty, that could take considerable time--and funds. ``I can't deny that more roads and schools are an advance,'' says Pablo Romo, an aide to Roman Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz, who is mediating the government-rebel talks. ``But most indigenous people here still have a painful existence. There is a long road ahead...
...that at one 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...
...Chiapas, for now Zedillo has some breathing room. Recognizing that he | had to defuse the situation quickly, last week he drew back an army buildup around rebel areas and accepted the rebel demand that Bishop Samuel Ruiz help negotiate peace. But in his new economic plan he is certain to defer his election promise that 1995 will be the year that prosperity will trickle down to the masses. That could mean the kind of social discontent that launched Mexico on its most recent cycle of headaches. Welcome to the nightmare...
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...