The Assassination Of Luis Donaldo Colosio

[SargeistExisting]

Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (February 10, 1950 – March 23, 1994) was a Mexican politician, and PRI presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexican Presidential campaign of 1994.

[Oswald2001]

He coulda just voted against him, but, "Noooooooo!".

[Tommi]

Everyone got covered in brain!

[kellyhound]

At 7:12 PM, on March 23, 1994, at a campaign rally in Lomas Taurinas, a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California, Colosio was shot in the head from a distance of a few centimeters in front of a person recording video nearby. There was no foreign press coverage of this campaign event in spite of it happening only a few miles south of San Diego, California. Colosio collapsed, and was subsequently rushed to the city's main hospital, after plans to fly him to an American hospital across the border were canceled. His death was announced a few hours later; amid contradicting eyewitness reports that remain to this day.


The three shots that Colosio receivedThe shooter, Mario Aburto Martinez, was arrested at the site and never wavered from his story that he had acted alone. Nonetheless, many theories still surround Colosio's assassination. The authorities were criticized for their poor handling of Aburto, having shaved, bathed and given him a prison haircut before showing him to the media, which started rumors about whether that man, who looked so different from the one arrested, was really the murderer. Colosio received three bullet wounds, and it was never clear if they could have been done by a single person or not. The case has been officially closed after many different prosecutors investigated it, but after the many mishandlings of the investigation and contradictory versions, the controversy continues.

Blame was initially laid at the feet of aforementioned Manuel Camacho, allegedly very upset at having been passed over as Salinas's successor. The finger of suspicion also pointed in the direction of organized crime, particularly the Tijuana drug cartel. With the passage of time, however, the most persistent rumor, seemingly confirmed by Ernesto Zedillo's (Colosio's campaign manager) selection as the PRI presidential candidate, is that Colosio was shot on the orders of Salinas himself because of a speech Colosio gave, talking about the Mexican people "thirst" for justice and a bright future. According to this rumor Salinas felt those words marked a rupture between Colosio and him.

Nevertheless, these conspiracy theories have proven faulty and often short of logic and have remained topics of urban mythology, as video evidence and Aburto's clinical history have proven them wrong. The shooter remains imprisoned at the high-security La Palma facility in Almoloya de Juárez, and the mystery surrounding the political assassination of the man chosen to be Mexico's president remains as open and intriguing as day one

[icheerthebull]

so is there footage of the other two shots somewhere?

[Emperor Wang]

That gun sounds like a kids toy, anyway the thing that I hate about crowds is IF by some shear miracle he was still alive the medical team would have no chance getting to him in time as all those douchebags are crowding round him.

[Quiet]

Originally Posted by Big Bill Cannon

That gun sounds like a kids toy, anyway the thing that I hate about crowds is IF by some shear miracle he was still alive the medical team would have no chance getting to him in time as all those douchebags are crowding round him.

He was still alive, the video said that they put him in a car, but as it was driving it crashed right away, so they transferred him to an ambulance. When he got to the hospital he was still alive, but he died from his wounds.

[Azimuth]

Brain matter splatter Yuk.

[PostalGlock'n]

I like how the bugs or lice that were on his head jumped when he was shot. Seriously, WTF was in his hair??

[mcpronoun]

Confetti? Nice exit wound.