The suspects were arrested in the 1994 assassination of Mexican president Luis Donaldo Colosio

Federal prosecutors in Mexico have arrested another suspect in the case of the president Luis Donaldo Colosio, a crime that terrorized the country and remains unsolved, although the killer who confessed has been imprisoned for more than 30 years.

A government official who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed on Monday to the media that Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega was arrested in Tijuana in connection with Colosi’s murder. The official did not say whether the charges against Sánchez Ortega, who will be held in a maximum-security prison in central Mexico, await trial.

According to the national banner, the arrest took place on Saturday.

Colosio, who was elected President in 1994 by the Institutional Reform Party (PRI), was shot twice during a meeting in the northern Indian city of Tijuana. Since 2024, federal prosecutors have been seeking to prosecute an intelligence agent assigned as his bordiod, “as Jorphetrator only of the second shot.

As of Monday, the prosecutor’s office had not officially commented on the arrest of Sánchez Ortega, and authorities have not confirmed whether new evidence is emerging.

According to reports, Sánchez Ortega was employed at the time as an agent at the center of investigation and national security – back then Mexico’s equivalent of the US intelligence agency.

Mario Aburto had already said 45 years in prison since 1994 after declaring himself the sole ruler of the murders, his confession was resurrected later, he said he was tortured.

Due to Aburto’s complaints, during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2019-2024) the National Human Rights Commission recommended that the Federal Prosecutor’s Office open an investigation.

The assassination of Kolosi sparked a great political crisis in Mexico and was always surrounded by controversy fueled by the hope that it might be encouraged by certain sectors of power, among the PRI-dominated electorate Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

In this January 2024 statement, the attorney general’s office said there was evidence that the agent assigned to Colosi’s security was at the scene and had clothes with the blood of the victim. It also revealed that eyewitness testimony showed that he fired the weapon – with just seconds difference between the two shots – and Witnesses saw him fleeing immediately after the shooting.

In the same statement, the organization thought it confirmed that the National Security and Intelligence Center, in the year 1994 was under the Ministry of Interior, sent him to the scene of the killing of people urgently and calm down. ” The statement concluded that the agent’s immediate release was “an apparent criminal offence.”

Since Kolosi’s murder, other politicians have been targeted for violence in Mexico. In 2010the former gubernatorial election candidate, Rodolfo Torre, was killed in northern Mexico. Plagued by drug-related violence for decades, the country has seen it again and again Local politicians were killed Recently, including the former mayor Beheated in 2024.