Journey into the past. Or two past.
To one, the most remote, that of Colosio’s assassination; The memory of that political death is clouded, or completely non-existent if we remember that in the country there are 30.4 million young people under the age of 29, that is, not born in 1994.
On the other hand, not so far away, the last decade, the years of Javier Duarte’s robbery in Veracruz.
Between these two trips, Morena and the Attorney General want Mexico to reach the farthest issue. This Saturday they achieved their goal and with a shoe horn they obtained from a judge the order that leaves the alleged second murderer of Luis Donaldo Colosio in prison.
On Saturday in Almoloya de Juárez, the scene of vigilante montages, Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, a missing former CISEN agent, who at the time was under investigation, imprisoned and released without charges, was tried for the crime of Lomas Taurinas.
Colosio is a myth. Almost a saint. He certainly didn’t deserve the fate that took his life with two bullets on March 23, 1994, marking a couple of generations who will never forget where they were that day, throwing the country into anxiety in the form of an unanswered question: Why was Colosio killed?
The self-confessed murderer, arrested amid pushing and shoving in the dusty neighborhood where Colosio died, is still in prison. Mario Aburto is already saying everything to get out as soon as possible. Let’s see who dares to open the gate despite being in the shadows for 31 years.
To bring charges against Aburto required special prosecutors (plural) who would claim that it was the action of a lone assassin, motivated by something akin to a delusion of grandeur, who uncovered a plot, which ultimately included José Antonio Sánchez Ortega. In the end, everything remained as it was at the beginning: it was just Aburto, Mexican justice said for decades… until Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero came to power.
Obadorism, we have discovered in the last six years, did not believe in the lone killer and now Claudia Sheinbaum has Sánchez Ortega in prison. More fuel for the eternal conspiracy that goes: Why and who killed Colosio?
There is another question. What Morena missed in the Colosio case. Yes, yes, from the beginning the Obradorists wanted to link Sánchez Ortega with Genaro García Luna (which was also done at CISEN), one of their bête noires of cauldronism and perhaps the one they milked the most from 2018 to 2024. What do they hope to achieve by “reopening” the dossier which has never yielded anything other than frayed threads every time they attempted to establish a state crime, or a crime of drugs, or mafia, governors, PRI members, or anything other than a Michoacan worker emigrating to Tijuana with patriotic scratches in his notebooks.
The mystery of the reasons why Morena would have done justice to Colosio will be revealed (perhaps) sooner or later. While this is happening, it is impossible not to think badly, not to fall into the temptation to compare the effort of Obradorism in pursuing an alleged conspiracy with something that offends the PRI, and obviously the family of the unfortunate candidate, and not necessarily the population in general, as in the case of Javier Duarte.
Already today the former governor of Veracruz could be free for good behavior. It is difficult to write this sentence without letting out a laugh as loud as those that characterized Fidel Herrera’s successor. Well, in reality this would not come out of good behavior, but rather due to the apathy of Morena and his attorney Gertz Manero, who left unresolved attempts to divert public resources worth around 60 billion pesos.
As it happens, the only sentence that was given to Duarte was around nine years and after being imprisoned in 2017, after an escape as predictable as it was vulgar, all very shoddy, he is about to receive the benefit of a pre-release for – one must write this effortlessly remembering that he used Twitter even from prison – good behavior.
Duarte was not the head of a government, his was nonsense where ghost companies were created to inhabit every Halloween in history. If the projects of front companies once became famous, it was thanks to this politician from Veracruz.
How unbearable Duarte’s stay in the Veracruz government would be if the Peña Nieto administration considered it a burden on its image. Those are big words. But the important thing is something that today Morena seems to forget, or deliberately neglect.
What happened with Duarte was not a problem among the PRI members. His boasts, the violence unleashed and unpunished, his wife’s notebooks declaring abundance while the embezzlements piled up, the scandal of giving water instead of medicine to children suffering from cancer… all this was an affront to the people of Veracruz and, by extension, to the people of Mexico.
Morena today wants to find a second killer in a 1994 case in which there is no evidence that Sánchez Ortega was with Colosio when he was shot. Morena will not intervene in the social programs that were intended for the people of Veracruz and ended up in who knows what fortunes and pockets.
Without new evidence, Morena is more interested in using state resources to try to uncover what someone before had done about Colosio’s death. And if Peña Nieto unspeakably supported Javidú before dropping him, Morena acquiesced to him by not undertaking new investigations.
Peña Nieto’s PRI would not have been exhaustive against the governor of Veracruz, otherwise it would end up bogged down in the investigations. Perhaps for the same reason Morena adopts identical behaviors. It is not for nothing that they say that what does not seem logical sounds metallic.
