Life in Mexico from 1982 to 1994 (part 5)

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According to the official version presented by the Attorney General Jorge Carpizo, the killing of Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo vice-president of episcopate was that, the cartel of the Arellano sent his men to the city of Guadalajara to kill Chapo Guzman, but they searched for 12 days without having traces of him, and they decided to return to Tijuana. To arrive at parking of the airport found to Chapo and his bodyguards, whose went to vacation to Puerto Vallarta. In that moment arrived the cardenal Posadas in his Grand Marquis white (“like those used by narcos”). And so killed to cardenal Posadas and his driver, only because they mistook.                        But this version was not accepted by the Catholic Church and demanded explanations credible

2

In the first minutes of the first of January 1994, the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, and the family Salinas celebrated a party in Los Pinos after to a vacations in Huatulco, the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN), integrated by two thousand indians mayas, tojolabales, tzotziles, tzltales and lacndones armed with rifles AK-47 occupied San Cristobal de las Casas and blocked roads, they went wear with green pants, brown shirts and covering their faces, entered to the cities screaming “ya basta”.

The EZLN declared war to government of president Salinas and his disposition to see the situation that lived many indians.

3

it is said that morning when he was killed Luis Donaldo Colosio received a call from Jose Maria Cordoba who begged him to resign, Colosio said not, and Cordoba said stick to the consequences.
Colosio later traveled to Tijuana this day was in Lomas Taurinas a poor neighborhood, his coordinator Ernesto Zedillo was not for a politic reason.

Had a lot of people and Colosio walked through crowd, when a man stopped him raised a 38 caliber pistol and shot to Colosio, first in head, after in his abdomen, Colosio was taken to hospital, where died. The PGR arrested to Mario Aburto Martinez and Jorge Antonio Sanchez Ortega.

 

4

The debate between the three presidential candidates was the first in the history in Mexico, it was transmitted by TV. The candidate for the PAN, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos who was categorized as the winner because their opponents were very slow. Surveys said that Fernandez would win, but he suspended his campaign for one month.