Education
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He was governor of Guerrero from 1987 to 1993. He then served as the secretary-general of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Institutional Revolutionary Party) 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 Institutional Revolutionary Party 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 Institutional Revolutionary Party party meeting held at Casa Blanca.
His murder happened just six months after the murder of Institutional Revolutionary Party party presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, who was gunned down on March 23, 1994 in Tijuana. Daniel Aguilar Treviño confessed to authorities that he was paid $500,000 United States dollar by Rodriguez Gonzalez himself to commit the crime.
When Rodriguez Gonzalez was interrogated he then revealed of the intellectual participation of Institutional Revolutionary Party 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 Procuraduría General de la República 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 from Institutional Revolutionary Party officials in the case.
He assured to have proof to accuse Institutional Revolutionary Party party president Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza 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 foundation 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.
The government charged him with obstructing the investigation of his brother"s murder. The government also found seventeen million dollars in United States. bank accounts linked to Mario Ruiz Massieu.
He was not found deportable.
Mario Ruiz Massieu committed suicide in 1999. Raúl Salinas was found guilty on January 21, 1999. On appeal, his sentence was cut to 271⁄2 years.
In June 2005 the conviction was overturned and Raúl Salinas freed.