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- Oct. 10, 1994: Assassinated:Jose F. Ruiz Massieu
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Oct. 10, 1994 Black Renaissance
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> ASSASSINATED. JOSE FRANCISCO RUIZ MASSIEU, 48, Secretary-General
- of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.);
- in Mexico City. A single bullet pierced the neck of Mexico's
- second most powerful man as he was leaving a party function--only six months after the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate
- Luis Donaldo Colosio was gunned down while campaigning in Tijuana.
- Like Colosio, Ruiz Massieu was identified with the so-called
- reformist wing of his party; thus his assassination renewed
- speculation that the P.R.I.'s internal battles may be at the
- root of both deaths. Others linked the killing to the Republic's
- ultraviolent narcotics traffickers; Ruiz Massieu's brother is
- the deputy attorney general in charge of the drug war. And yet,
- though a gunman was arrested on the scene, and police said they
- were searching for confederates who allegedly paid $15,000 for
- the killing, no motive was publicly revealed. If the assassination
- was an attempt to destabilize the government, Ruiz Massieu was
- a sadly perfect choice. One of the new generation of P.R.I.
- leaders, he was close to outgoing President Carlos Salinas de
- Gortari (he was divorced from Salinas' sister). At the same
- time, he was one of the few ruling-party pols respected by the
- country's opposition.
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