Word: zedillo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zedillo named as the new P.R.I. presidential candidate...
Camacho repeated what he had said on Tuesday, that he had no intention of seeking the presidency. With Salinas' support, he could still get the nomination, but speculation now centers on Ernesto Zedillo, the murdered candidate's campaign manager, and Fernando Ortiz Arana, the president of P.R.I. There are other potential candidates among the Cabinet ministers, but party rules say the nominee must not have held senior government positions in the six months before the election -- and voting is now closer than that...
...Colosio, who was widely expected to win the Mexican presidency in August elections, was shot and killed while campaigning in Tijuana. Police arrested a suspect at the scene, who later confessed; the assassination was apparently not linked to the peasant uprising in Chiapas state that began in January. Ernesto Zedillo, Colosio's campaign manager, is now considered one of the leading contenders to replace Colosio as the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), as is the P.R.I. chief, Fernando Ortiz Arana...
Suggesting that recent state economic improvement lay the ground work for better "basic education", Zedillo said he hoped that government budget reform and the increased privatization of public works would allow a greater devotion of public works spending to social programs...
...Education is a fundamental condition for development," Zedillo said, "It is now widely accepted that education--or investment in human capital--is key for GDP growth...