Transcript: Author Carlos Fuentes Reflects On Colosio Assassination

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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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