political
Luis Donaldo Colosio Assassinated in Tijuana
PRI's presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was shot and killed at a campaign rally in Tijuana. The gunman, Mario Aburto Martínez, was immediately apprehended. Official investigations concluded Aburto acted alone, but conspiracy theories — implicating PRI hard-liners, the Salinas circle, and narcos — were never fully debunked. Ernesto Zedillo replaced Colosio as PRI candidate.
Sources
- T1 PGR investigation file, 1994 Official
- T3 Jorge Fernández Menéndez, Nadie supo nada: la verdadera historia del asesinato de Colosio, Grijalbo Institutional
- T2 La Jornada, March 24, 1994 Major