COLOSIO MURRIETA, LUIS DONALDO

looēsˈ thônälˈdō kôlôˈsyō mooryāˈtä, 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. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI), he was elected (1985) to the Mexican congress, later became a senator, and served (1988–92) as party head. He was (1992–93) social development secretary under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari before resigning to run for Mexican president. Colosio was assassinated while campaigning in 1994.

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books on: Colosio Murrieta Luis Donaldo  - 8 results

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1.
United States Policy in Latin America: A Decade of Crisis and Challenge
Book by John D. Martz; University of Nebraska Press, 1995
Subjects: Latin America--Foreign Relations--1980-, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--1981-1989, United States--Foreign Relations--1989-1993, United States--Foreign Relations--1993-, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...Frente Nacional , 362 ; in Salvadorian peace process, 48 ; U.S. Andean Drug Strategy, 308, 313 - 14 Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo, 131 Committee of Santa Fe, 5 , 196 - 97 Compton, John, 66 Confederation of Mexican Workers Confederacion...
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NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States
Book by Ann E. Kingsolver; Lynne Rienner, 2001
Subjects: Canada--Treaties, Etc--1992 Oct. 7--Public Opinion, Free Trade--North America--Public Opinion, Public Opinion--Mexico, Public Opinion--United States
...Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana), 10 , 42 , 120 Collins, Joseph, 44 Collins, Patricia Hill, 135 Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo, 64 , 133 , 145 , 157 Comite de Unidad Tepozteca (Committee of Tepoztecan Unity), 150 Concheiro, Elvira...
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Driving the State: Families and Public Policy in Central Mexico
Book by Dolores M. Byrnes; Cornell University Press, 2003
Subjects: Emigrant Remittances--Mexico--Guanajuato (State), Guanajuato (Mexico : State)--Emigration And Immigration--Government Policy, Job Creation--Government Policy--Mexico--Guanajuato (State), Women Offshore Assembly Industry Workers--Services For--Mexico--Guanajuato (State)
...32 Class, social, 53, 56-58. See also Middle class Cleanliness, 127,196n. 3 Clothing, 56-5? Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo, 72-73 Compadrazgo, 191n. 2 Coronil, Fernando, 170,195n. 1 Cristero revolt, 8, I92n. ? 7 DACGE...
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The North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union
Book by Nicholas V. Gianaris; Praeger Publishers, 1998
Subjects: Canada--Treaties, Etc--1992 Oct. 7, European Union Countries--Foreign Economic Relations--North America, European Union--North America, Free Trade--European Union Countries, Free Trade--North America, North America--Foreign Economic Relations--European Union Countries
...234 Chile, 130 , 146 , 233 - 235 China, 21 , 124 , 149 , 228 , 243 , 251 Churchill, Winston, 33 , 47 Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo, 27 Common agricultural policy CAP , 140 Commonwealth of Independent States CIS , 60 , 252 , 254 Congress...
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Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico
Book by Chappell H. Lawson; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Freedom Of The Press--Mexico, Government And The Press--Mexico--History--20th Century
...patronymic. Thus Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu is written here as Jose Francisco Ruiz-Massieu and Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta is written simply as Luis Donaldo Colosio. 2 Miguel Perez, Denuncia EZP a los Malosos, Reforma, June 24,1995. 3 Authors...
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magazine articles on: Colosio Murrieta Luis Donaldo  - 3 results

 
 
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Mexico's Days of Melodrama; Who Killed Colosio?
Magazine article by Paco Ignacio Taibo II; The Nation, Vol. 258, April 25, 1994
Subjects: Assassination--Mexico, Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo--Crimes against, Presidential candidates--Crimes against
...fell on an obscure minister, Luis Donaldo Colosio, a figure in the party machine...Aburto Martinez, approached Colosio and fired two shots; later we...goal of taking the life of Mr. Luis Donaldo Colosio." He offered no motive for...
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Mexico's Ruling Party Faces Day of Reckoning: A Historic Election South of the Border Will Determine Whether Machine Politics Give Way to True Democracy - or to a Costly Period of National Unrest
Magazine article by Leslie Alan Horvitz; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, August 29, 1994
Subjects: Cardenas, Cuauhtemoc--Political activity, Chiapas, Mexico (State)--Military aspects, Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo--Crimes against, Guillen Vicente, Rafael Sebastian--Military policy, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico)--Political activity, Mexico--Politics and government, Zapatista National Liberation Army (Mexico)--Military policy, Zedillo, Ernesto--Political activity
...observers is no guarantee," says Jose Luis Morin, executive director of the...assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, the possibility of more old wounds...what happened on March 23, when Colosio, the PRIs presidential candidate...
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In Chiapas, Long Shadows
Magazine article by Alberto Huerta; Commonweal, Vol. 121, May 6, 1994
Subjects: Chiapas, Mexico (State)--Military aspects, Ruiz Garcia, Samuel, Bishop--Mediation and arbitration
...presidential candidate of the PRI party, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, opened wide Mexicos unhealed...conspiracy and transformed the Colosio assassination into a Mexican version...assassination. He had "no beef" with Colosio, he said, and theorized that...


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encyclopedia articles on: Colosio Murrieta Luis Donaldo  - 4 results

 
 
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Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COLOSIO MURRIETA, LUIS DONALDO looes thonal do kolo syo moorya ta, 1948 94, Mexican politician...Salinas de Gortari before resigning to run for Mexican president. Colosio was assassinated while campaigning in 1994...
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Mexico , Country, North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Although certain viceroys, including Luis de Velasco (both father and son...Missile Crisis (1962). In 1970, Luis Echeverria Alvarez became president...constitutional reforms. Also in 1994, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta , the PRIs presidential candidate...
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Institutional Revolutionary Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...but the party still remained Mexicos dominant political group. In 1994 the PRIs presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta , was assassinated; the partys new candidate, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon , won the presidency by a narrow...
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Zedillo Ponce De LeÓn, Ernesto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and education (1992 93) under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari . After the PRIs presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta , was assassinated in 1994, Zedillo, who had never served in an elected office, was chosen to replace him...


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