[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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         EXPRESSION OF SORROW AT MEXICO'S LOSS BY ASSASSINATION

  (Mr. KOLBE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Speaker, I stand here today to express my sorrow and 
anguish at the tragic assassination last evening of the leading 
presidential candidate in Mexico, Luis Donaldo Colosio. Gunned down by 
assassins in the border city of Tijuana, Donaldo Colosio was doing what 
those of us in politics do every day--meeting with voters and citizens 
of his country, listening to them, telling them of his own hopes and 
dreams.
  I knew Donaldo Colosio. In fact, you could say he was something of a 
hometown boy, growing up in Magdalena, Sonora, just a few mines south 
of Arizona's border. He studied at the University of Arizona; he and 
his family frequently traveled to Tucson on business and pleasure. I 
spent a long evening a couple of years ago with Mr. Colosio, then 
chairman of his political party, at the residence of Mexico's 
ambassador, talking about the changes in Mexico's political system. He 
was brimming them with enthusiasm and optimism for Mexico's future, as 
he was yesterday when he died.
  Today we mourn the tragic and untimely fall of this rising star in 
Mexico. But, we also know the growing political maturity of Mexico will 
sustain them in this hour of trial. Of that, we have no doubt. For 
that, we can be grateful.

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