Luis Donaldo Colosio

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Monument to Luis Donaldo Colosio in Puerto Peñasco , Sonora

Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (born February 1, 1950 in Magdalena de Kino , Sonora ; † March 23, 1994 in Tijuana , Baja California ) was a Mexican politician of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), who ran for the 1994 presidential election. He was shot dead on March 23, 1994 while campaigning in Tijuana.

Life

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Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta completed an economics university course in Monterrey on a scholarship until 1972 , which he graduated as the best of his year. From 1974 to 1977 he studied at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a Masters in Urban and Regional Economic Planning . In 1985 he became a member of the PRI and in 1988 he was elected Senator for the state of Sonora. In 1988 he led the presidential campaign for Carlos Salinas de Gortari . In 1992 he was brought into the government cabinet and headed the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL). In 1993, when the PRI made him the official party candidate for the presidential election using the traditional dedazo , he resigned from his ministerial post.

During his election campaign, he was shot dead by an assassin on March 23, 1994 in Tijuana. While in the first days of reporting official statements suspected cartels behind the crime, rumors spread among the public about possible contract killings by Colosio's internal opponent, Manuel Camacho Solís , and the incumbent President Salinas. These were supported, among others, by EZLN icon Subcommandante Marcos . The crime could not be completely cleared up.

Movies

  • 1994 , six-part documentary by Diego Enrique Osorne (Mexico 2019)
  • Criminal case: Colosio (original: Historia de un Crimen: Colosio ), eight-part series about the investigation of the attack (Mexico 2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta. In: Munzinger Online / People. International Biographical Archive. April 4, 1994, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Christian Wernicke: A people in shock. Zeit Online, April 1, 1994, accessed January 23, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Pickert: The portrait. Luis Donaldo Colosio. In: taz. the daily newspaper / taz archive. March 25, 1994, accessed March 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Colosio, Luis Donaldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colosio Murrieta, Luis Donaldo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican presidential candidate
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdalena de Kino , Sonora, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1994
Place of death Tijuana , Baja California, Mexico