Mexican Candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio's Slaying Stirs Doubts 20 Years Later Sandra Dibble - U-T San Diego
go to original March 23, 2014

Many Mexicans remember where they were when presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was killed. Twenty years later, his murder still remains an unsolved mystery - one that has spawned a number of conspiracy theories. (Fusion)

TIJUANA — Two shots that rang out 20 years ago in Lomas Taurinas are still vivid memories in this working class neighborhood and across Mexico of the day that presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was killed.

The assassination threatened to plunge Mexico into its worst political crisis in more than six decades. And to this day many Mexicans are loath to endorse the final conclusion of a six-year government investigation: That the confessed assassin, a 24-year-old maquiladora worker named Mario Aburto, acted alone.

Colosio’s killing was an event unseen in Mexico since the 1928 assassination of President Alvaro Obregón. As the candidate of Mexico’s long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, the 44-year-old native of Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, was widely assumed to be the country’s next president.

In Lomas Taurinas, Carmen Robles recalls the people who rushed past her in panic that Wednesday afternoon. Twenty years later, the 47-year-old clothing vendor harbors no doubt about Colosio’s killing: “It was definitely a conspiracy.”

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