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MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors in Mexico arrested another alleged accomplice in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, a crime that shocked the country and remains unsolved<\/a>, even though the confessed killer has been imprisoned for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n A federal official who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that Jorge Antonio S\u00e1nchez Ortega was arrested in Tijuana in connection with Colosio’s assassination. The official did not specify the charges against S\u00e1nchez Ortega, who is being held in a maximum-security prison in central Mexico, awaiting trial.<\/p>\n According to the National Registry of Detentions, the arrest took place on Saturday.<\/p>\n Colosio, the 1994 presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was shot twice during a rally<\/a> in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana. Since 2024, federal prosecutors have been seeking to prosecute an intelligence agent assigned as his bodyguard, identified only as Jorge Antonio \u201cS,\u201d as the alleged perpetrator of the second shooting.<\/p>\n As of Monday, the prosecutor’s office had not officially commented on the arrest of S\u00e1nchez Ortega.<\/p>\n Mario Aburto has been serving a 45-year prison sentence since 1994 after declaring himself the sole perpetrator of the assassination, a confession he later retracted, claiming he was tortured.<\/p>\n As a result of Aburto’s complaints, during the administration of President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador<\/a> (2019-2024) the National Human Rights Commission recommended that the federal prosecutor\u2019s office reopen the investigation.<\/p>\n Colosio’s murder triggered a major political crisis in Mexico and was always surrounded by controversy fueled by the possibility that it was encouraged by certain spheres of power, amid internal struggles within the ruling PRI to choose a successor of then-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.<\/p>\n In a January 2024 statement, the Attorney General’s Office said there was evidence that the agent assigned to Colosio\u2019s security was at the scene and had clothing stained with the victim\u2019s blood. It also stated that ballistic evidence indicated that he fired a weapon \u2014 with only a difference of seconds between the two shots \u2014 and witnesses saw him flee immediately after the shooting.<\/p>\n In the same statement, the agency considered it confirmed that the National Security and Investigation Center, which in 1994 was under the Ministry of the Interior, sent the agent to the scene of the assassination only to later \u201ccover for him and take him out of Tijuana urgently and surreptitiously.\u201d The statement concluded that the agent\u2019s immediate release was \u201can evident criminal cover-up.” ____<\/p>\n Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n