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The NAFTA boys: Salinas, Bush and MulroneyFormer Mexican President Implicated in Brother's ScandalsNew York Times, April 10, 1997 MEXICO CITY -- Mexican prosecutors released evidence Wednesday suggesting that former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took part in a cover-up of the role his brother is accused of playing in a 1994 political assassination.
The special prosecutor said Wednesday that, according to new testimony, the former president was officially informed early on that his older brother's name had come up repeatedly in the investigation of the shooting death of a prominent politician.
Within days of the murder, Carlos Salinas arranged a meeting at the presidential palace for his brother, Raul, and the Mexican attorney general, and at that meeting, Raul Salinas asked to be left out of the inquiry, according to the testimony.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~poli354/Mexico_pages/970410Salinas.htmlCarlos Salinas de Gortari - President 1988 - 1994...
Then came a cycle of high profile political murders.
In March 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, who surely would have been the next president of Mexico, was shot to death in Tijuana. Two weeks earlier, on March 6, he had made a speech that distanced him from the Salinas government. Stating that Mexico was still a Third World country, he pledged to implement political reform and to separate the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from the government. Though a half-crazed young man, instantly labeled as "the lone gunman," was arrested for the shooting, Mexicans are still asking themselves whether or not this was a political execution. As presidential candidate, Colosio was replaced by Ernesto Zedillo, who had been his campaign manager. The son of a poor family who once shined shoes but proved sufficiently upwardly mobile to get an education at Yale, Zedillo won in what was considered by international observers to be a fair election. A competent and intelligent technocrat, honest but colorless, Zedillo has been referred to by political satirists as "Nerdedillo."
In September 1994 there was another high-level political assassination that tarnished the prestige of the Salinas family. The victim was PRI secretary general José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Salinas's former brother-in-law. The marriage to the president's sister had terminated in a bitter divorce. Charged with masterminding the murder was Raill Salinas, the president's older brother. (He was recently found guilty of the crime and sentenced to fifty years in prison.)
Raul Salinas proved to be a detriment to his brother in more ways than one. It was discovered that he was at the center of a vast web of corruption and influence peddling and that the Salinas economic "miracle" consisted more in creating twenty-one new billionaires than in raising the general standard of living.
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtsalinas.html