Mexico arrests a new suspect in 1994 assassination of a presidential candidate

Federal prosecutors successful Mexico person arrested different alleged accomplice successful the 1994 assassination of statesmanlike campaigner Luis Donaldo Colosio

MEXICO CITY -- Federal prosecutors successful Mexico arrested different alleged accomplice successful the 1994 assassination of statesmanlike campaigner Luis Donaldo Colosio, a transgression that shocked the state and remains unsolved, adjacent though the confessed slayer has been imprisoned for much than 30 years.

A national authoritative who requested anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to talk publicly, confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega was arrested successful Tijuana successful transportation with Colosio's assassination. The authoritative did not specify the charges against Sánchez Ortega, who is being held successful a maximum-security situation successful cardinal Mexico, awaiting trial.

According to the National Registry of Detentions, the apprehension took spot connected Saturday.

Colosio, the 1994 statesmanlike campaigner for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was shot doubly during a rally successful the bluish Mexican metropolis of Tijuana. Since 2024, national prosecutors person been seeking to prosecute an quality cause assigned arsenic his bodyguard, identified lone arsenic Jorge Antonio “S,” arsenic the alleged perpetrator of the 2nd shooting.

As of Monday, the prosecutor's bureau had not officially commented connected the apprehension of Sánchez Ortega.

Mario Aburto has been serving a 45-year situation condemnation since 1994 aft declaring himself the sole perpetrator of the assassination, a confession helium aboriginal retracted, claiming helium was tortured.

As a effect of Aburto's complaints, during the medication of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2019-2024) the National Human Rights Commission recommended that the national prosecutor’s bureau reopen the investigation.

Colosio's execution triggered a large governmental situation successful Mexico and was ever surrounded by contention fueled by the anticipation that it was encouraged by definite spheres of power, amid interior struggles wrong the ruling PRI to take a successor of then-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

In a January 2024 statement, the Attorney General's Office said determination was grounds that the cause assigned to Colosio’s information was astatine the country and had covering stained with the victim’s blood. It besides stated that ballistic grounds indicated that helium fired a limb — with lone a quality of seconds betwixt the 2 shots — and witnesses saw him fly instantly aft the shooting.

In the aforesaid statement, the bureau considered it confirmed that the National Security and Investigation Center, which successful 1994 was nether the Ministry of the Interior, sent the cause to the country of the assassination lone to aboriginal “cover for him and instrumentality him retired of Tijuana urgently and surreptitiously.” The connection concluded that the agent’s contiguous merchandise was “an evident transgression cover-up." ____

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