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Transcript: Author Carlos Fuentes Reflects On Colosio Assassination
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- March 27, 1994
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DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: In Mexico City today, leaders of the ruling
Institutional Revolutionary Party continued searching for somebody
who can succeed Luis Colosio, the party's presidential candidate who
was assassinated last Wednesday. The party, nicknamed the `PRI',
has ruled Mexico for 65 straight years now, the longest tenure of
any political party in the world. Its presidential victories in recent
years have been marred by charges of widespread vote rigging. The
distinguished Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes has long been calling
passionately for democratic reform. He's never been shy about criticizing
the PRI. In a conversation with NPR's John ...
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