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2012-03-24 Caribbean-Latin America

Luis Donaldo Colosio assassination was 18 years ago today

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Posted by badanov 2012-03-24 09:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#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|| 2012-03-24 10:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-24 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Who assassinated him, and why?

Posted by trailing wife 2012-03-24 13:14|| 2012-03-24 13:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-24 14:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-24 15:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-03-24 15:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-24 15:54|| Front Page Top

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