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Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis doˈnal.do koˈlo.sjo muˈrje.ta]; 10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexican presidential campaign of 1994.
Mar 23, 2019 · Twenty-five years ago today, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, presidential candidate for the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana...
Jul 21, 2010 · Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s ruling party’s presidential candidate, is gunned down during a campaign rally in the northern border town of Tijuana.
Aug 21, 1994 · The new President had quickly exacted revenge, throwing out the legendarily corrupt governor, Xicotencatl Leyva. When Ruffo defeated the PRI in the ensuing gubernatorial election, Colosio, then...
Mar 23, 2021 · On March 23rd, 1994, Luis Donaldo Colosio, the official candidate for the presidency of Mexico, makes his way through a crowd after concluding a political event in Tijuana, Baja California.
Mar 23, 2014 · Colosio was shot twice in the head and in the stomach, yet only one bullet was ever recovered. A doctor told reporters his death was caused by two bullets of different calibers.
Jan 31, 2024 · Luis Donaldo Colosio, next to a framed portrait of then-Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, waves to reporters in November 1993, a few months before he was fatally shot.
Mar 23, 2022 · The assassination of Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, which occurred on a day like today 28 years ago, still shakes up the country's politics, raising questions...
The Mexican political leader Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was assassinated after becoming a presidential candidate. Born February 10, 1950, in Magdaleno de Kino, Sonora, the son of a meat packer and self-educated accountant, he graduated from the Institute of Technology and Higher Studies in Monterrey in economics.
Mar 25, 1994 · Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, who rose through Mexican politics as a protege of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and became Mr. Salinas's choice to succeed him, was assassinated Wednesday...
