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TIME: There seems to be a sense in the streets that until the three murders [of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, Juan Jesus Cardinal Posadas and P.R.I. secretary-general Josa Francisco Ruiz Massieu] are solved, it will be difficult for you to govern. Zedillo: According to the information provided to me by the Attorney General, the Ruiz Massieu case is practically solved, and the Posadas case seems to be nearly solved. In the Colosio case, we have made progress to the extent that we now believe there was a second shooter. But we haven't been able to find anything...
...Zedillo: Well, I couldn't govern if I were afraid. Obviously right after Colosio's assassination my family and I were very concerned. I wouldn't like to use the word frightened, but we were very concerned. Little by little and despite incidents during the presidential campaign, we learned not to be afraid...
...Zedillo: I consider that accusation totally unfair. We had two victims in 1994: Mexico and the Institutional Revolutionary Party. I find accusations that the P.R.I. as an organization was involved in [the Colosio] assassination to be offensive. There's nothing that has emerged in the evidence that could give support to the accusation...
...Zedillo: I am convinced that the party is moving toward reform. The P.R.I. has a very wide and solid political base, the biggest of any party. But it needs to be more democratic. It's as simple as that. And of course it needs the general environment -- economic, social and political -- to improve, which I think will also happen. So I don't expect the P.R.I. to dissolve or destroy itself...