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  Luis Donaldo Colosio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician who was assassinated during a stop on his presidential campaign.
In November 1993, the PRI announced that Colosio was to be its candidate for the upcoming presidential election.
In the early evening of 23 March 1994, at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, Colosio was shot in the head from a distance of a few centimeters.
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 Frustrated Sonorans miss Colosio | Arizona Daily Star ®
Nogales - Inauguration of the Luis Donaldo Colosio plaza and monument at the corner of Ciudad Obregon and Kennedy, 10:30 a.m.
Thousands of people throughout Sonora and the rest of Mexico will gather today to honor Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, the candidate who was expected to win Mexico's presidency when he was shot and killed on March 23, 1994, during a rally in a Tijuana barrio.
Guerrero said she believed in Colosio 10 years ago and is not convinced that Fox or any of Mexico's current political leaders can fix Mexico's economy or build the confidence the country needs.
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 Luis Donaldo Colosio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
After a poor start, the spotlight focusing on PRI's Manuel Camacho Solís negotiations with the EZLN guerrilla, Colosio appeared to prove popular with the public in general.
In the early evening of 23 March 1994, at a campaign rally in a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, Colosio was shot in the head from a distance of a few centimeters.
Colosio received three impacts, and it was never clear if they could have been done by a single person.
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 Welcome to Oaxaca Journal - Culture -
The Constitutional Government of the free State and Sovereign of Oaxaca in execution to that prepared by the State Law of Prizes in which the grant of THE YOUTH'S STATE PRIZE settles down, and of the medal Lic.
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta", through the Juventud Oaxaqueña's Institute and in coordination with the Youth's Mexican Institute: They summon to THE YOUTH'S 2000 MEDALLA LIC.
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta", a diploma signed by the C. Gobernador of the State, in which the reasons will be expressed by the one that is conferred, and a quantity in money according to the Budget of Expenditures of the State government.
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 AllRefer.com - Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta[lOOEs´ thOnAl´dO kOlO´syO mooryA´tA] Pronunciation Key, 1948–94, Mexican politician and government official, b.
Magdalena del Kino, Mex. He studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and in Austria, returning to Mexico, where he began his political career.
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 The Week in Mexico | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Durazo worked as private secretary to Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, the presidential nominee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, until Colosio was assassinated in Tijuana in 1994.
Colosio's son forgives: Colosio's son, Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, told the Reforma newspaper he has forgiven Mario Aburto Martínez, convicted of assassinating his father March 23, 1994.
Colosio Riojas said he isn't a member of the PRI and doesn't like how his father's image is appropriated by politicians.
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 OUTLAW MAKES CBA ALL-ROOKIE 1ST TEAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Colosio was the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the leading political party in that country.
The passage of NAFTA and the campaign promises of Colosio are seen by many politcial analysts to be attempts to bolster the hope of Mexicans that they would soon see fruitful results.
He chose Colosio because "he is the one who at least most clearly promises to continue the Salinas legacy," said Luis Javier Garrido, and expert on the PRI at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in the New York Times.
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 Mexico: Uncertainties in the Colosio Affair
Following the death of Colosio, Salinas entrusted one of the leaders of this group, Agriculture Secretary Carlos Hank González, with the task of presenting Zedillo as the PRI's new candidate.
Some observers assume that Colosio was eliminated because of his low rating in electoral polls and the risk that the dominant political class might lose its stronghold on power.
Therefore, it is speculated that the objective of the crime was to replace Colosio with another candidate and improve the party's position in the polls.
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 Luis Donaldo Colosio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Born into a family with a long political heritage in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Colosio Murrieta studied at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, better known by its initials ITESM, after which he joined the PRI (1972).
With the passage of time, however, the most persistent rumor, seemingly confirmed by Ernesto Zedillo\'s selection as the PRI presidential candidate, is that Colosio was shot on the orders of Salinas himself because of a speech Colosio gave, talking about the Mexico´s people "thirst" for justice and future.
The famous Mexican rock group El Tri, also wrote a song about the assassination of Colosio, called Con la cola entre las patas (With the tail between the legs).
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 press release
The Attorney General's Office states that yesterday Jorge Amaral Muñoz was put at the disposal of the Fifth District Judge in the state of Baja California, based on the arrest warrant issued for him for alleged perjury and for giving false information before authorities other than the judicial ones.
Jorge Amaral Muñoz was the main witness for the prosecution during the trial of Othon Cortes Vazquez, an alleged accomplice in the homicide of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta.
It is regrettable, that in an obvious attempt to defend himself, he misled public opinion to his benefit, as was shown in an interview aired on television, where the "witness" forgot to mention his crucial part in the trial of Othon Cortez Vazquez.
www.pgr.gob.mx /cmsocial/press00/nov/pr586.html   (723 words)

  
 Zapatistas – 1994 Chiapas uprising - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, 43, took office as president of Mexico on December 1, 1994.
He became the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) candidate following the March 23 assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta.
The killing was one of two political murders that, combined with...
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Several people are in jail on charges relating to the Posadas, Colosio and Ruiz Massieu murders, but most Mexicans feel that these people are bit players in much bigger operations.
Like Benitez, Attorney General Lozano is a member of the PAN, and on Feb. 24 of this year he suddenly announced that Benitez' hypothesis was correct: there had been a second assassin.
He also charged the head of Colosio's private security group, former federal police officer Fernando de la Sota Rodalleguez, with manipulating the evidence at the scene of the crime.
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 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Luis Donaldo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo - Facts from the Encyclo...
Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo (l,s´,,ônäl´d, kôlô´sy, mry,´tä), 1948-94, Mexican politician and government official, b.
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 Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico
He was (1992-93) social development secretary under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari before resigning to run for Mexican president.
Colosio was assassinated in Tijuana while campaigning in 1994.
Colosio fue asesinado en Tijuna mientras que hacía campaña en 1994.
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 Colosio's murder is a closed case: Presidency
Mexico, March 23, 2006 (Notimex).- Twelve years after Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was shot dead, the President's office in Mexico stated that for the Mexican justice this is a "closed case."
However, he highlighted that "that has not been like that so far," and that is why the Lomas Taurinas' assassination of the 1994 presidential candidate is a closed issue.
During a press conference, the officer gave condolences to Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta's family on behalf of the nation's presidency.
quepasa.com /english/news/latinamerica/Colosio.closed.case/443396.html   (412 words)

  
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Cordoba Montoya, the World Bank and the CIA Most Mexicans remain convinced that the Colosio assassination could not have been carried out without a wider conspiracy, and that a conspiracy of such scope would be impossible without the participation of Los Pinos, the presidential residence.
One week after the Colosio assassination, on Mar. 31, President Salinas suddenly dismissed Cordoba and sent him to a newly created post as Mexico's representative to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington [see Update #218].
Andrew Reding calls the CISEN "Mexico's counterpart to the CIA." Cordoba was its coordinator at the time of the Colosio assassination.
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 AllRefer.com - Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de LeOn (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Educated as an economist in Mexico and the United States and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) since 1971, he served as Mexico's minister of planning and the budget (1988–92) and education (1992–93) under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
After the PRI's presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, was assassinated in 1994, Zedillo, who had never served in an elected office, was chosen to replace him and won the election.
With the economy in recession : reeling from a peso devaluation, rising inflation, and soaring interest rates : Zedillo continued Salinas's free-market economic policies, which ultimately resulted in sustained economic growth.
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 The Mexican murder mysteries (Part 2)
Most Mexicans remain convinced that the Colosio assassination could not have been carried out without a wider conspiracy, and that a conspiracy of such scope would be impossible without the participation of Los Pinos, the presidential residence.
One week after the Colosio assassination, on March 31, President Salinas suddenly dismissed Cordoba and sent him to a newly created post as Mexico's representative to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington.
No-one ever denied that there was a conspiracy behind the September 1994 murder of PRI general secretary Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, a former governor of the western state of Guerrero, the ex-husband of then president Salinas' sister Adriana Salinas de Gortari, and a rising political star expected to lead the PRI's congressional majority.
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 Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta
A cuatro años de Lomas Taurinas: traición a la memoria de Colosio.
(investigación del asesinato de Luis Donaldo Colosio)(TT: The memory of Colosio) (TA: investigation of Luis......
Esos días.(aniversario de asesinato de Luis Donaldo Colosio; narrativa sobre el evento)
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 The Mexican murder mysteries (Part 3)
Two days later, on the morning of April 10, the body of DF transport and highways secretary Luis Miguel Moreno Gomez was discovered in his office; he had been shot twice in the chest with a.38 mm hand-gun apparently belonging to one of the office's security guards.
Bodenstedt is the alleged femme fatale said to have used her romantic links with former presidency secretary Jose Cordoba Montoya to infiltrate Colosio's security force.
Hank Gonzalez was agriculture secretary at the end of the Salinas administration, and from this position strongly influenced the agriculture and water resources committee of the federal Congress.
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 Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo, 1948-94, Mexican politician and government official, b.
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 Siempre!: El recuerdo de Colosio. (investigación del asesinato de Luis Donaldo Colosio)(TT: The memory of Colosio) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
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En medio de la conflictiva situacin poltica de los ltimos das --adems de los problemas internos estaba la amenaza estadunidense de la "descertificacin} y las sanciones que lleva consigo-- lleg el tercer aniversario del asesinato del candidato presidencial del PRI, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta.
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 Siempre!: Los crímenes políticos. (asesinatos de Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Juan Jesús Posadas ...
(asesinatos de Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu)(TT: Political crimes) (TA: assassinations of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu)
El pasado martes 10 el asesinado candidato presidencial del PRI Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta hubiera cumplido 47 aos y, pronto, el 23 de marzo, se cumplirn 3 aos del atentado en que perdi la vida.
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