US EditionMexico arrests a new suspect in 1994 assassination of a presidential candidate
Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, an intelligence agent, was arrested in Tijuana for the 1994 killing of Luis Donaldo Colosio amid claims of a government cover-up.
- On Monday a federal official confirmed Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega was arrested Saturday in Tijuana, Mexico, in connection with the 1994 Colosio assassination.
- Colosio was shot twice during a Tijuana rally, triggering a major political crisis amid internal Institutional Revolutionary Party succession struggles and ongoing controversy over the 1994 killing.
- Since 2024 federal prosecutors have sought to prosecute Jorge Antonio "S" as the second shooter, with the Attorney General's Office reporting blood-stained clothing, ballistic evidence, and witnesses, while the National Security and Investigation Center allegedly covered for him.
- The suspect is being held in a maximum-security prison as of Monday, the prosecutor's office had not commented, and the National Human Rights Commission recommended reopening the probe during Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President's administration.
- The case has long 'shocked the country' and remains unsolved despite Mario Aburto's imprisonment for more than 30 years, with observers linking the murder to PRI succession struggles.
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Federal judge decreed detention in the Penal Court of the Altiplano of Jorge Antonio Snchez, former agent of the Cisen linked to the Colosio case.
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Mexico arrests a new suspect in 1994 assassination of a presidential candidate
Federal prosecutors in Mexico have arrested another alleged accomplice in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Authorities arrested a suspect involved in the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, PRI candidate for the presidency of Mexico in 1994. This is Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, a former agent of the so-called CISEN, a former spy and intelligence agency of the Mexican State. He was arrested in Tijuana, Baja Califonia, almost 31 years after the assassination that marked Mexico’s political history. According to the portal of the National Register of…
After 31 years of the assassination, the investigations have not clarified the authorship of the assassination of the then candidate of the PRI for the presidency. Isaac Rosales Shipyard Informs Journalist Laura Sánchez Ley said that the arrest of José Antonio Sánchez Ortega for the Colosio case responds more to an attempt by the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR) to justify personnel and resources that they have employed since the…
The family will be able to consult the entire file that is kept in the Courts to know who were responsible for his death, 48 years later Málaga is entrusted to the Artificial Intelligence to 'arrange' him the traffic jam in Urbanismo
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