In a context of legal normality, attempts to find those responsible for the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio, beyond Mario Aburto, would be condemned to the discredit that comes from the loss of time in an institution, the FGR, which has many recent unsolved cases. But we are not in a time of normality, and that is why a judge granted the arrest warrant against Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, a former CISEN agent whom they intend to accuse of being the second shooter on March 23, 1994.
If the investigations and the evidence that support them are adhered to, Sánchez Ortega would have to be released immediately, but that will not happen, because the purpose of turning the Colosio case around is political, since what it is about, once again, is to focus attention on an event from the past, to attribute criminal behavior to relevant figures decades ago.
Ultimately, what encourages the prosecutors, although it may seem absurd, is to blame Genaro García Luna for traveling to Lomas Taurinas, to get his colleague from the CISEN out of trouble and thus cover up his participation in the assassination.
It is important to keep in mind that there is no mention of the man who would later become director of the AFI and secretary of Public Security in the voluminous files of the murder of the PRI candidate for the presidency of the Republic.
What there is, however, are elements that dismantle the hypothesis, not only of Sánchez Ortega’s participation, but that of a second shooter.
Sánchez Ortega was arrested the same afternoon as the crime. The reasons had to do with the fact that a commander considered him suspicious when he saw him running in the vicinity of the scene of the incident.
When the sodium rhodizonate test was performed, it was positive and, in addition, a small blood stain was found that was the same type as that of the murdered candidate.
In the disorder that prevailed in the first hours after the attack, no studies were carried out that could certify, with certainty, the firearm discharge since the experts did not have the equipment to carry out the atomic absorption test.
What was done, however, was to rule out, based on a thorough investigation, through photographs, that Sánchez Ortega had been in the vicinity of the candidate at the time of the attack.
Regarding the blood staining, it was proven that it occurred at the moment Colosio’s body was transferred from the Blazer truck to an ambulance.
The fundamental thing in this matter, however, lies in the impossibility of a second shooter.
The PGR, at the time, carried out an undoubted ballistic identification of the weapon and the projectiles. The bullet and casing found at the scene were fired by the Taurus .38 revolver that Aburto was carrying. An FBI expert, Carlo J. Roseti, certified this.
The impossibility of a simultaneous shot was also demonstrated, based on the criminalistic analysis of the injuries inflicted on Colosio.
These studies motivated, in the same way, that Othón Cortés was exonerated of the charge of homicide, since he was attributed to being the second dissipator, and in passing he showed the bad tricks with which the first prosecutor in the matter, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla, dirty the investigation, with the aim of finding political responsible parties.
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