The Supreme Court ordered this Wednesday to keep Mario Aburto in prison, the confessed murderer of the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994, the largest assassination in the history of the country, before a protection trial that ordered his release.
The First Chamber of the Supreme Court asked, by three votes to two, to reinstate the trial of the amparo that had been granted in October 2023 by the First Collegiate Court on Criminal Matters in the State of Mexico to free Aburto.
Said court canceled the 45-year sentence imposed on Aburto and ordered a new sentence because he was tried based on the Federal Penal Code and not with the law of Baja California, where the assassination occurred and which established a maximum sentence of 30 years of imprisonment. prison, which was completed in March.
The members of the Supreme Court argued that this protection did not contemplate the rights of the victim’s relatives, although the son of the deceased, the now senator Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, asked the Government to pardon Aburto and to self-exile from the country to end the the controversy.
The murder of Colosio is considered the most serious assassination in Mexico since 1928, when the elected president Álvaro Obregón was assassinated, because he was a candidate of the then hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which always won the elections, until 2000.
The controversy has been revived because former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President Claudia Sheinbaum have supported the new theory of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic about a second shooter with links to his main political rivals.
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According to both, the second shooter was Jorge Antonio Sánchez, agent of the Center for Investigation and National Security, an espionage agency of the Government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and he received protection from agent Genaro García Luna, who was Secretary of Security of then President Felipe Calderón. .
With information from EFE
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