Mexico Marks Assassination Date

Just south of the Arizona border, in Luis Donaldo Colosio’s hometown, admirers of the slain presidential candidate gathered Thursday around his grave.

Audelia Medina, a resident of this town 40 miles south of Nogales, Ariz., just stared.

“You left behind a very mixed up Mexico,” she said, addressing Colosio.

Plagued by uncertainty about who wanted to kill him and why, Mexico marked the first anniversary of Colosio’s assassination in a climate of economic and political turmoil, and suspicion of high-level conspiracy.

At a ceremony for Colosio in Mexico City, President Ernesto Zedillo on Thursday reiterated his vow “to fully clear up the brutal crime that took the life of the best man in our Mexico.”