Mexico City - The confessed killer of a leading Mexican politician has implicated the former president, Mr Carlos Salinas, for the first time in the murder and in the killing of the ruling party's 1994 presidential candidate.
In a letter sent on Thursday to Multivision television and reprinted by most Mexican newspapers yesterday, the jailed gunman, Daniel Aguilar Trevino, said the murders of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu and Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994 were planned in the president's office where Mr Salinas ruled from 1988 to 1994.
Mr Salinas's brother, Raul, was sentenced this month to 50 years in jail for ordering the killing of Ruiz Massieu, secretary-general of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.