Colosio's son commented that he forgives the cowards whom killed to his father. He told that one of the most beautiful things that he learned it was to forgive with the soul and that his revenge it will be his forgiveness to them.
Furthermore, he mentioned that he will not forgive that some families still living the same situation as his family did. He also said that 27 years ago a lot of people lost a hundred of hopeful ilusions in Mexico, they lost high expectatives saboutfuture, work and oportunities.
“I do not share the thesis of the lone assassin” -Alfonso Durazo.
Argued the governor about the re-oppening of the case on 2022. He commented that it will be an investigation to give a tracing to the legal procedures about Colosio's murdered.
It is important to mention that Durazo was the particular secretary of Colosio, he was younger and he was closer from Colosio. It is because this is a personal topic for him.
Check out the full note here (available only in spanish):
El gobernador de Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, era secretario particular de Luis Donaldo Colosio al momento de su asesinato; está de acuerdo en qu
Luis Donaldo Colosio: the assassination that unleashed the spiral of violence that Mexico suffers.
The crime occurred in the afternoon. Colosio's dead caused a politics crisis for example the murder of Francisco Ruiz Massieu, who was the General Secretary of PRI and ex brother in law of Salinas de Gortari. At the finals from 1994, Mexico finished with a politics deep crisis known as "december's mistake, even in an international framework it callesd "Tequila's effect".
At the same time, the event caused a new public organization that it was calles as Ejército Popular Revolucionario (EPR). There was also a growing trend in the number of violent homicides, which in 1997 was greater than 13,000 in the country.
In this age, was born Zeta's group, shaped by 40 exmillitar of elite and originally were the army arms from Cartel del Golfo.
In this link you could read more. (only available in spanish)
"The crime was a tremendous blow against me and my government. If any political strategy was damaged as a result of the crime, it was the one that Colosio and I shared”
In 1996, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was called to declare about the Colosio's Murdered case as expresident from Mexico and distanced from Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari from public opinion it was considered as the main autor crime. So, he claimed that he real objective it was to go until the background and he never interfiried into the investigation. As the same time, he argued that he gave the opportunity to Colosio's wife to choose the person, who will ivestigate the case, he was Miguel Montes, who was the person what managed the "Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación.
Also, it is important to mention that Gortari told that in any moment he had a conflict with Colosio and a lot less a political rupture. Inclusive, Gortari was the person who advised to Colosio that it was important to make a distance between him and the government at the moment of his campaign. Likewise, he revealed in his statement that Colosio showed his discourse and he was not against of his discourse.
Read more about it on this link. (available on spanish only)
"I see a Mexico that is hungry and thirsty for justice. A Mexico of wronged people, of people wronged by the distortions imposed on the law by those who should serve it. Of women and men afflicted by the abuse of the authorities or by the arrogance of government offices..."
-Luis Donaldo Colosio (days before his assassination)
This is the most relevant quote from his last public speech. Often the first line is quoted: "I see a Mexico hungry and thirsty for justice".
And you can check the full speech in this video right here
"If Luis Donaldo Colosio had won the 1994 presidential election, Mexico would not have faced the economic crisis that broke out in December of that year."
- Ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari
You can read more of his revelatory statement here (only in Spanish)
Trailer of the movie Colosio: The Murder. This film was released on cinemas in Mexico on June 8, 2012, directed by Carlos Bolado. The movie explains about Colosio’s death and his meetings with the PRI.
You can find this film in Cinepolis Klic for 99 pesos and rent it for 49 pesos.
1994 fue para México un año turbulento. Un importante político del partido en el gobierno es asesinado después de un mitin en Tijuana y todo
Among the documents collected by the Special Prosecutor's Office at the beginning of the investigations is a black notebook with drawings made by Aburto in the months leading up to the murder. In one of them is one of the "eagle knight" that contains the image of a man wrapped with a flag and the legend: "those who are against the decisions of the people who consider themselves traitors to the homeland."
On March 6, Luis Donaldo Colosio spoke in the monument of the revolution, where he gave 21 ideals. Today, these are a thing of the past because of the little credibility and scandals that the government has made in the past years, such as the 43 missing students, the problems of corruption that the country is going through, among other things.
The 21 ideals that Colosio reported that day are on this website and are in Spanish:
Un día como hoy, hace 22 años, el sonorense candidato del PRI a la Presidencia de la República, falleció en Lomas Taurinas, su legado de pro
"Complot" written by journalists Dora Elena Cortés and Manuel Cordero is one of the many books that have been written about the case, it details some 'holes' of the investigations that helped strengthen the hypothesis of the lone murderer.
The distribution of the book, edited by El Universal, was prohibited, so the newspaper sold it directly. The information about how to buy it was released on a note on El Universal on 2019.
Almost 30 years later, the conspiracy remains: Who killed the Mexican presidential candidate Colosio?
A man (Mario Aburto Martínez) confessed to the murder but many doubt the true story has come out. Find out about this conspiracy in this article by Mexico Daily News:
In 1994, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, presidential candidate for the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana, Baja California.
Only one man, Mario Aburto Martínez, was convicted of Colosio’s murder. He was sentenced to 42 years in prison.
But millions of Mexicans doubted or outright rejected that he was the mastermind of, or even committed, the crime.
Twenty-five years later, people continue to deny that Aburto is the true culprit. Most fingers instead point at the PRI – an inside job against a candidate who was trying to shake things up a little too much and made some powerful enemies in the process.
On March 23, 1994, Colosio arrived in Tijuana on the campaign trail for that year’s presidential election, which he was almost certain to win.
According to journalists covering the campaign, the rally in the poor Tijuana neighborhood of Lomas Taurinas at which Colosio was shot was not originally on the candidate’s itinerary for that day.
At around 4:00pm, Colosio arrived – without an excessive security entourage – at the venue that would host the rally.
He appeared to be in a good mood, smiling and greeting the people who had gathered to hear him speak. Just over an hour later, he was shot twice, first in the head and seconds later in the abdomen.
The 44-year-old candidate was rushed to a Tijuana hospital but hours later he was pronounced dead.
A man – supposedly Aburto – was arrested at the scene of the crime but many people believe that a different man – the real Aburto – was convicted of the crime. In other words, the killer was replaced with an innocent man.
After a long and seemingly comprehensive investigation – and a confession by Aburto – the federal government declared that the 22-year-old was the sole culprit, although many people suspected that there were two gunmen.
Miguel Montes, the first of five special prosecutors who worked on the case, believed that Aburto had not acted alone based on the fact that Colosio was shot twice and that the bullets had apparently come from different directions.
Four other men, including former police officer Vicente Mayoral Valenzuela and Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, an intelligence agent for the now-disbanded Center for Investigation and National Security (Cisen), were arrested in connection with the assassination.
But the hypothesis that more than one person was responsible for the murder was abandoned after Aburto admitted that he acted alone.
Building the case against him, authorities established that Aburto suffered from borderline personality disorder, a condition they contended contributed to his actions.
Olga Islas de González Mariscal took over responsibility for the investigation in July 1994 after Montes resigned and five months later she declared that Aburto had indeed acted alone.
Another theory regarding Colosio’s murder is that organized crime was responsible.
Guillermo González Calderoni, a former police commander, said in a 1998 television interview that the Arrellano-Félix Cartel was responsible for the murder.
A total of 29 different versions of events involving organized crime were considered by the federal attorney general’s office, including one that Colosio’s campaign was funded by Colombian drug money or by now-convicted drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
According to three versions of events, Aburto had links to drug trafficking organizations.
However, authorities said there was insufficient proof to substantiate any of the organized crime hypotheses.
Yet another theory contends that Colosio’s own party was involved.
Who was Luis Donaldo Colosio, the controversial politician who was assassinated months before being elected president of Mexico?
Find out in this short translated article from Milenio:
Twenty-five years after the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, society's interest in knowing who he was and what he did remains as valid as that March 6, 1994, when he delivered his cathartic speech on the foundations of the PRI, at the Monument to the Revolution.
Son of Luis Colosio and Ofelia Murrieta, he was born on February 10, 1950, in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics from Tec de Monterrey and a master's degree in regional economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
According to the informative publication of the PRI La República, while he was in the sixth year of primary school he won first place in a regional oratory contest and his prize was to visit and shake hands with then-president Adolfo López Mateos, in Mexico City.
He joined the ranks of the Institutional Revolutionary in 1979 and parallel to his political career taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Colegio de México (Colmex) and the Universidad Anáhuac, where he met Diana Laura Riojas, who was his wife, according to the publication.
In 1982 he obtained a position in the Secretariat of Programming and Budget, then headed by Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. Three years later (1985) he won the federal deputation for Sonora and assumed the presidency of the Programming, Budget and Public Account Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
According to the César Camacho organization, in 1987 he was appointed senior official of the PRI's National Executive Committee (CEN); however, one year was enough for him to become its national leader and hold a seat as a federal senator. Under his leadership, the Institutional Revolutionary obtained the majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, during the federal elections of August 18, 1991, according to the history of the Federal Electoral Institute.
In that same year, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (who was his godfather when he entered the party) incorporated him into the federal cabinet as Secretary of Social Development. On November 28, 1993, Colosio consolidated the PRI's candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic and left his colleagues Manuel Camacho Solís and José María Córdoba Montoya behind.
The cathartic moment of his political career came on March 6, 1994, when he delivered a speech at the Monument to the Revolution in which he demanded the modernization of the PRI based on the demands of history and the country's poor. Just 17 days later (March 23) Luis Donaldo Colosio died after being shot by Mario Aburto, a confessed murderer, after concluding a rally in Lomas Taurinas, Tijuana, considered the poorest neighborhood in the country.
"Mexico does not want political adventures! Mexico does not want to jump into the void! Mexico does not want to go back to schemes that were already in power and proved to be ineffective! Mexico wants democracy but rejects its perversion: demagoguery!"
-Luis Donaldo Colosio
In a line that proves why his political speech was moving mountains during his campaign to become president.
The following video is the trailer for the series Historia de un Crimen: Colosio.
This series tells us about the story of Luis Donaldo Colosio and gives us information about his death and also how his wife who has terminal cancer tries to find who was the culprit of this event and this series shows a process of investigation where nothing is clear and to know if in reality Mario Aburto Martinez is the real murderer.
You can watch it on Netflix and contains 8 episodes of approximately 40 minutes each.
Here is the link to watch it:
En 1994, el candidato presidencial mexicano Luis Donaldo Colosio muere asesinado. Su viuda, enferma terminal, busca la verdad contra reloj.
