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José Francisco Ruiz Massieu (July 22, 1946 – September 28, 1994) was a Mexican political figure. He was governor of Guerrero from 1987 to 1993. He then served as the secretary-general of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1994. His term ended with his assassination. José Francisco Ruiz Massieu was the brother-in-law of Carlos Salinas and was due to become the PRI majority leader in the Chamber of Deputies. All that changed on the morning of September 28, 1994, when he was murdered by a gunman, a 28-year-old named Daniel Aguilar Treviño just outside Hotel Casa Blanca located at Lafragua street crossing with Reforma avenue in downtown Mexico City. The incident occurred while Ruiz Massieu was boarding his vehicle after attending a PRI party meeting held at Casa Blanca. ==Investigation== His murder happened just six months after the murder of PRI party presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, who was gunned down on March 23, 1994 in Tijuana. Two days after the murder on September 30, 1994, PRI deputy Fernando Rodriguez Gonzalez was arrested in Zacatecas and confessed to authorities that he himself hired hitman Aguilar Treviño and a cousin of this one to commit the murder. Daniel Aguilar Treviño confessed to authorities that he was paid $500,000 USD by Rodriguez Gonzalez himself to commit the crime. When Rodriguez Gonzalez was interrogated he then revealed of the intellectual participation of PRI Deputy Manuel Muñoz Rocha linking him to the murder. Muñoz Rocha, who also disappeared just days after the murder, made a phone call to a Mexico City television station saying that he was willing to come forward and give his side of the story to PGR authorities if his request for protection was made. Such request was approved by government officials but, by then, Muñoz Rocha was never to be seen or heard of again. Two weeks later, the assistant attorney general investigating the case, Mario Ruiz Massieu, the brother of the assassinated politician, resigned because of irregularities in part of PRI officials in the case. He assured to have proof to accuse PRI party president Ignacio Pichardo and party secretary Maria de los Angeles Moreno of hiding evidence and thus blocking the investigation. Pichardo Pagaza and Moreno requested for proof to be shown but was never found. On February 28, 1995, Raúl Salinas, the brother of former President Carlos Salinas, was arrested at his Mexico City home and was considered the mastermind of the Ruiz Massieu assassination. Three days later Mario Ruiz Massieu was arrested in Newark, USA, boarding a plane to Madrid while carrying USD $46,000 in unreported cash. The government charged him with impeding the investigation of his brother's murder. The government also found seventeen million dollars in U.S. bank accounts linked to Mario Ruiz Massieu. He was not found deportable.〔http://www.justice.gov/eoir/efoia/bia/Decisions/Revdec/pdfDEC/reposts/3400.pdf〕 Mario Ruiz Massieu committed suicide in 1999. Raúl Salinas was found guilty on January 21, 1999.〔http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-581241.html〕 On appeal, his sentence was cut to 27 years. In June 2005 the conviction was overturned and Raúl Salinas freed.〔BBC. "Mexico frees ex-leader's brother". 10 June 2005. Accessed on 9/3/12 at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4079372.stm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José Francisco Ruiz Massieu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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