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Mexico agency orders video released from 1994 assassination
Published 9:54 pm CDT, Wednesday, October 31, 2018
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's national transparency agency has ordered prosecutors to release 13 video recordings related to the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Agency chief Blanca Ibarra Cadena says the matter is of "social and historic transcendence" and the release will shed light on the case and its investigation.
The classified videos have been requested by an unidentified private party. Prosecutors have argued it would expose lines of investigation.
The agency said Wednesday in a statement that the videos show Colosio in Tijuana on the day of his assassination, as well as what happened after he was shot.
The man convicted of the killing confessed and said he acted alone. But many Mexicans doubt the official story, believing there was a conspiracy and cover-up involving then-President Carlos Salinas' government
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Mexico-agency-orders-video-released-from-1994-13353180.php
(Short article, no more at link.)
From his Wikipedia:
Assassination[edit]
At 5:05 PM PST, on 23 March 1994, at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California, Colosio was shot in the head with a .38 Special at a distance of a few centimeters from a nearby person recording a video. Colosio collapsed, and was subsequently rushed to the city's main hospital, after plans to fly him to an American hospital across the border were canceled. His death was announced a few hours later, amid contradicting eyewitness reports that remain to this day.
The shooter, Mario Aburto Martínez, was arrested at the site and never wavered from his story that he had acted alone. Nonetheless, many theories still surround Colosio's assassination. The authorities were criticized for their poor handling of Aburto, having shaved, bathed and given him a prison haircut before showing him to the media, which started rumors about whether that man, who looked so different from the one arrested, was really the murderer. Colosio received three bullet wounds, and it was never clear if they could have been done by a single person or not. The case was officially closed after many different prosecutors investigated it, but after the many mishandlings of the investigation and contradictory versions, the controversy continues. Aburto remains imprisoned at the high-security La Palma facility in Almoloya de Juárez.
On 18 November 1994, Diana Laura Riojas, the wife of Colosio, died while she was investigating on her own the murder of her husband; officially she died from pancreatic cancer[citation needed].
At 5:05 PM PST, on 23 March 1994, at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California, Colosio was shot in the head with a .38 Special at a distance of a few centimeters from a nearby person recording a video. Colosio collapsed, and was subsequently rushed to the city's main hospital, after plans to fly him to an American hospital across the border were canceled. His death was announced a few hours later, amid contradicting eyewitness reports that remain to this day.
The shooter, Mario Aburto Martínez, was arrested at the site and never wavered from his story that he had acted alone. Nonetheless, many theories still surround Colosio's assassination. The authorities were criticized for their poor handling of Aburto, having shaved, bathed and given him a prison haircut before showing him to the media, which started rumors about whether that man, who looked so different from the one arrested, was really the murderer. Colosio received three bullet wounds, and it was never clear if they could have been done by a single person or not. The case was officially closed after many different prosecutors investigated it, but after the many mishandlings of the investigation and contradictory versions, the controversy continues. Aburto remains imprisoned at the high-security La Palma facility in Almoloya de Juárez.
On 18 November 1994, Diana Laura Riojas, the wife of Colosio, died while she was investigating on her own the murder of her husband; officially she died from pancreatic cancer[citation needed].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Donaldo_Colosio