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...Mexico, public officials who quit their jobs but value their futures tend to keep the reasons for leaving to themselves. Not Mario Ruiz Massieu. He held a press conference, for which he took out newspaper advertisements offering public invitations. He arrived surrounded by a cordon of rifle-toting federal police and bodyguards. He distributed 3,000 copies, printed in color, of his resignation speech. And after announcing his departure both from his job as Mexico's assistant attorney general and from the political party to which he has belonged for 23 years, Ruiz Massieu slammed the door behind him with...
...Ruiz Massieu informed a packed crowd at the Attorney General's headquarters in Mexico City that he had left three sealed boxes in the office of the Attorney General. The boxes, he said, contained documents proving his boss and two prominent officials of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I., had illegally attempted to block his investigation into the assassination of a leading politician. For a Mexican prosecutor to make a televised appearance is exceptional; to do so in order to call members of the P.R.I. "demons" and accuse them of unsubstantiated crimes is unprecedented. Yet the case that...
Before he was gunned down by an illiterate ranch hand on Sept. 28, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu was slated to play a major role as reformer in Mexico's next government. As secretary-general of the P.R.I., a top adviser to Mexico's incoming President and the appointed head of the government's overwhelming majority in the national legislature, he had the political leverage to change the party, which has governed Mexico for the past 65 years. His brother contends the murder probe was thwarted when the evidence began to point toward those who had the most to lose from...
...sources of this alleged obstruction, Ruiz Massieu announced, were the P.R.I.'s president, Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza, and current secretary-general, Maria de los Angeles Moreno, as well as his own boss, Attorney General Humberto Benitez Trevino. Ruiz Massieu refused to give specifics of the cover- up, saying only that his superiors "were more concerned with trying to defend the criminals than with resolving the issue." He promised the documents would prove his charges...
...boss and two of the country's most powerful officials conspired in the Sept. 28 assassination of his brother -- the ruling PRI party's reform-minded secretary-general. He then resigned from his post and the PRI. At an angry, 45-minute news conference this morning, Mario Ruiz Massieu said he's given the government evidence that the PRI's president and secretary-general (the second- and third-most powerful Mexican officials ) had blocked his investigation into the shooting of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu , Mexico's No. 2 official and a future presidential contender. He also said his boss, Attorney...