Opinion: Mexico: Assassination Of A Future President

From: Oakland Post | Date: March 30, 1994| Author: David Coheleth | Copyright information


Oakland Post

03-30-1994

Opinion: Mexico: Assassination Of A Future President.

They buried young Luis Donaldo Colosio, the candidate expected to be the next president of Mexico, on a quiet Friday afternoon before Easter Week in the public cemetery of Magadelena De Kino in Sonora. He was surrounded in death as in life by the modest people he came from and sought to represent and to whom he returned forever. The weapon was a handgun originally sold in San Francisc...

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