However, this is not the first time in which the former Cisen agent has been detained as a suspect in the Colosio case.
He was apprehended in Lomas Taurinas on March 23, 1994, due to the presidential candidate’s blood stains and a rhozonate test that tested positive for traces of gunshot wounds.
However, he was released a day later by the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR), which determined at that time that the person who had shot and caused Colosio’s death was Mario Aburto Martínez.
Sanchez Ortega was born in El Rosario, Sinaloa, in 1961, and lived in Tijuana, Baja California, starting in 1973.
He studied Law; He later began working at the National Research and Security Center (Cisen) in 1993, where he remained for 22 years. He retired in 2015.
For three decades, the only person accused and detained for the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio was Mario Aburto, the politician’s confessed murderer sentenced to 45 years in prison.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) admitted reviewing an amparo granted by the First Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters of the State of Mexico in favor of Aburto, which indicates that he was tried and sentenced based on the Federal Penal Code that imposed a sentence of 45 years, despite the fact that in Baja California the sanction was 30 years in prison.
However, in October 2024, the country’s Highest Court determined that Aburto remained in prison.
