Son of slain Mexican presidential candidate forges own political path

Three decades after his father was assassinated while running for president, Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas is himself a rising Mexican political star — and he wants a pardon for the convicted killer.The budding politician was just eight when his father, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, was shot in the head during a chaotic electoral rally in Tijuana, near the US border, in an attack that stunned the nation.