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Luis Donaldo Colosio

1950–1994 · 20th century

Luis Donaldo Colosio was a Mexican politician and the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1994. A former party president and minister of social development, he was shot dead at a campaign rally in Tijuana on 23 March 1994. His murder, in a year of rebellion and crisis, deepened distrust of the ruling party, and Ernesto Zedillo replaced him as candidate.

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