Overview
- The Fiscalía General de la República detained Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega over the weekend, 31 years after Luis Donaldo Colosio was killed in Tijuana.
- Sánchez Ortega has been held and questioned multiple times and now faces a fourth detention tied to suspicions he was a second shooter, a claim he has consistently denied.
- Reporting highlights that historical evidence centers on blood-stained clothing and a 1994 positive sodium rhodizonate test whose reliability was contested by authorities at the time.
- The FGR reactivated a Colosio inquiry in 2019, yet it has not identified specific new evidence leading to the latest action as legal observers flag statute-of-limitations questions.
- A UABC law professor described the renewed detention as a smokescreen to divert attention from current violence in states such as Michoacán and Baja California.