Dokument #1140154
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Updated information on Response to
Information Request MEX16818.F of 9 March 1994 on the circumstances
surrounding the assassinations of Roque Espinoza Foglia and Manuel
Bello of the PFCRN or Cardenista Front Party for National
Reconstruction, was provided, in a telephone interview, by the
party's Secretary for National and International Relations. The
source stated that Roque Espinoza Foglia's assassination was a
vengeance perpetrated by unknown groups (27 Jan. 1995). Roque
Espinoza Foglia had knowledge that his life was endangered,
according to this same source. He had received death threats by
telephone and survived a highway kidnapping attempt (carreterazo)
before being murdered in March 1992 (ibid.). A few individuals were
suspects in the assassination but no one was jailed.
No information on Manuel Bello's
assassination is currently available. For information on the PFCRN,
please consult the attached documents.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Partido del Frente Cardenista de
Reconstrucción Nacional. Mexico City. 27 January 1995.
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(NEXIS)
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(NEXIS)
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(NEXIS)
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(NEXIS)
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