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| Luis Donaldo Colosio assassination was 18 years ago today |
| 2012-03-24 |
| Link is in Spanish Google Translated excerpt: Nuevo Leon state PRI leader, Francisco Herrera Leon asked to think carefully where and with whom they want to go the PRI, because we must "keep preparing for what comes, without faltering or giving in." "There is no room for hesitation or for the simulation, ours is a ship bound with crew and captain at the helm. Nobody has to lose, all together we will come to fruition," he said. The remarks was given at the monument erected in memory of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, during the eighteen years after his death. Alsoin attendance were the sector leaders and organizations of the PRI, members of the CDE, local MPs, candidates for elected federal and Ali Jesus de la Torre, the PRI candidate to the State Government, Leo Herrera said Donaldo Colosio was a demanding critic who never betrayed his convictions. "He understood very clearly that the art of politics lies not in the graceful flight of their ideological convictions, but in strengthening their competitive edge." After the assassination of Donaldo Colosio, the entire upper tier of PRI, who were serving in then president Carlos Salinas de Gartari's cabinet was disqualified from replacing Colosio as the PRI candidate. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon was the best least worst choice for PRI candidate president of the republic. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #7 Salinas was too busy stealing to be of the left or the right. I wonder how his Irish is coming along... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2012-03-24 15:54 |
| #6 One theory about the assassination advanced by Mexian novelist Carlos Fuentes and others is that Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari commissioned the murder because Donaldo Colosio was drifting away from PRI ideology and drifting left. But that theory is absurd because the upper echelons of PRIists had to know they would be out of the running were Colosio to be killed. My theory is that someone from the left had him killed, either from the then nascent mainstream leftist PRD, many of whose members suffered horribly at the hands of previous PRI politicians during the Dirty War, or it was the Zapatistas, whose guerilla war was shut down by a one two punch of Mexican national government action and military action just three months before. |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-03-24 15:34 |
| #5 A charismatic Kennedyesque figure whose ideas of true change and reform within the PRI frightened its leaders (el dinosarios). An inside job by frightened party old-timer. There is a large memorial to him in his hometown of Magdalena, Sonora - a couple hours south of Tucson. Conspiracy theorists also suggest the PRI was also afraid of the rise of another Sonoran dynasty: tough edged northeners ruling over the soft mannered chocolate eaters of the south. RIP Don Colosio. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2012-03-24 15:29 |
| #4 good guy, as I remember it. They caught a lone gunman, but his motives were unclear, and there were two shots - a Mexican JFK conspiracy? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-03-24 14:26 |
| #3 Who assassinated him, and why? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-03-24 13:14 |
| #2 Little help, before my awakening, good guy bad guy or something else; trust y'alls opinion over intertube writings. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-03-24 13:04 |
| #1 I remember it clearly as it was in Tijuana. Big-time news here in San Diego |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-03-24 10:48 |