Mexico City (Mexico), 11 Nov. (LaPresse/AP) – Mexican federal prosecutors have arrested another alleged accomplice in the 1994 murder of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. A federal official, who requested anonymity, confirmed to the Associated Press that Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega was arrested in Tijuana in connection with Colosio’s murder. The official did not specify the charges against Sánchez Ortega, who is being held in a maximum-security prison in central Mexico awaiting trial. According to the National Detention Registry, the arrest took place on Saturday. Colosio, the presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was killed in 1994 by two gunshots during a rally in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana. Since 2024, federal prosecutors have sought to prosecute a secret service agent assigned as his bodyguard, identified only as Jorge Antonio “S”, as the alleged perpetrator of the second gunshot.
Mexico: new arrest for murder of presidential candidate in 1994
Mexico City (Mexico), 11 Nov. (LaPresse/AP) – Mexican federal prosecutors have arrested another alleged accomplice in the 1994 murder of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. A federal official, who requested anonymity, confirmed to the Associated Press that Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega was arrested in Tijuana in connection with Colosio’s murder. The official did not specify the charges against Sánchez Ortega, who is being held in a maximum-security prison in central Mexico awaiting trial. According to the National Detention Registry, the arrest took place on Saturday. Colosio, the presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was killed in 1994 by two gunshots during a rally in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana. Since 2024, federal prosecutors have sought to prosecute a secret service agent assigned as his bodyguard, identified only as Jorge Antonio “S”, as the alleged perpetrator of the second gunshot.
