Bad news, good news: Colosio's untimely death could mean the rebirth of reform - presidential candidate Luis Colosio - Mexico Manana: After Chiapas and Colosio

Reason, July, 1994 by Julio Marquez

The events toward the end of Salinas's term were unprecedented--a trade treaty blown out of proportion, an armed rebellion, the first political assassination since 1928. Faced with the unfortunate task of selecting a new candidate, then, Salinas seems to have stuck to his own ideology and encouraged history to repeat itself. Six years ago, a bright, young, Ivy-trained economist with no political experience assumed the Mexican presidency under challenging circumstances and visibly improved the country. The same is likely to happen again.

Julio Marquez, a Mexican citizen, is vice president of Latin American investment banking at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York.

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