The ministers of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) ordered the reinstatement of the amparo trial with which Mario Aburtoconfessed murderer of Luis Donaldo Colosioseeks to revoke his sentence. Aburto will continue in prison.
With this decision, the ministers indicated that The procedure with which Aburto Martínez seeks to have the 45-year sentence revoked must be reviewed again. of prison and a new one is issued, based on the sentence that prevailed in the Penal Code of Baja California in 1994.
Luis Donaldo Colosio was PRI presidential candidate, murdered in campaign on March 23, 1994 after giving a speech in the Lomas Taurinas neighborhood, in Tijuana.
Mario Aburto Martínez, his confessed murderer, would have evaded security and shot him in the head. Since then, Aburto has been held in a maximum security prison.
It wasn’t just Aburto: What is known about the second shooter in the Colosio case?
This year, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced that Jorge Antonio ‘S’ was the second shooter linked to the homicide of Colosio Murrieta.
According to the report, Jorge Antonio ‘S’ was deputy operational director of the National Research and Security Center (CISEN). For this position, he is indicated as close to Genaro García Luna.
The day Colosio was murdered in Tijuana, Jorge ‘S’ would have been present at the event with a reporter’s credential. HE He stained his shirt with blood when he approached the candidate and helped him get into the truck to go to the hospital.
At that time, the PGR interrogated him and exonerated him, and he was assigned to the CISEN of Sinaloa. According to Processwere assigned administrative tasks.
The members of the Supreme Court argued that this protection did not contemplate the rights of the victim’s families, although the son of the deceasedthe now senator Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, asked the Government to pardon Aburto and exile himself from the country to end the controversy.
The murder of Colosio is considered the most serious assassination in Mexico since 1928, when the elected president Álvaro Obregón was assassinated, because he was a candidate of the then hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). who always won the elections until the year 2000.
The controversy has been revived because former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the current president, Claudia Sheinbaum, have supported the new theory of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) about a second shooter with ties to his main political rivals.
According to both, the second shooter was Jorge Antonio Sánchez, agent of the National Research and Security Center (Cisen), an espionage agency of the Government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994), and received protection from agent Genaro García Luna, who was Secretary of Security of the then president Felipe Calderón.
