Weeks before his assassination, Colosio gave a speech criticizing the old guard of the corrupt ruling party. Judicial sources said Jorge Antonio Sanchez Ortega was arrested on Saturday in Tijuana, Baja California state, and appeared before a judge. Colosio, a candidate from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was shot during a campaign rally in Tijuana on March 23, 1994, and his assassination became a pivotal moment in Mexican political history. Similar to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Mexican authorities arrested a former intelligence agent suspected of involvement in the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994. A case that shocked public opinion and remains unsolved.
