report. With businesses reducing their spending in Mexico, the inflow of U.S. dollars is reduced which increases the demand for the dollar in Mexico. This causes the dollar to strengthen against the peso.B. The Colosio AssassinationOn March 23, 1994, during the Mexican presidential campaign, the PRI's candidate Donaldo Luis Colosio Murrieta, was assassinated while campaigning in Tijuana, Baja California. Unnamed U.S. intelligence officials have stated that former Mexican police commander Fernando de la Sota Rodalleguez, charged in connection with the assassination, was a paid informant for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City from 1990 to 1992. De la Sota began his police career in 1973 working for Mexico's Federal Security Directorate, and by 1992 he had become investigations department commander for the federal attorney general's office. He was fired that year on suspicion of taking bribes from alleged drug lord Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and the CIA dropped him soon after. De la Sota was working as the head of the private security team for Colosio on the day of the assassination. Federal investigators arrested De la Sota in February of this year on charges of giving false and conflicting testimony about the assassination. Despite his 20 years' experience in police work, De la Sota claimed that the gunshots set off a diabetic attack which kept him from seeing what was happening. He was released on Feb. 28 on a $7,000 bond. At the time of his arrest, Mexican officials indicated off the record that De la Sota was closely connected to the assassination. Currently two men are under arrest for the murder: Mario Aburto Martinez, a factory worker who allegedly shot Colosio in the head from the right side, and Othon Cortes Vazquez, who is charged with shooting the candidate in the abdomen from the left side. Cortes Vazquez and De la Sota knew each other. Cortes Vazquez worked for various PRI officials as a driver and messenger, a...
