Mexico’s president calls 1994 assassination of presidential candidate a ‘state crime’

Mexico’s president unleashed a broad spate of conspiracy theories Thursday, arguing that the 1994 assassination of a Mexico presidential candidate was a government-sponsored killing. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not provide any specific evidence for the accusation of state involvement in the killing of ruling party candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, but he did say he had met with Colosio just days before he died, purportedly at the hands of a lone gunman. “I came to the conclusion a long time ago that this was a state crime,” López Obrador said of the assassination.