Zedillo Testified in 1994 Slaying Probe
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MEXICO CITY — President Ernesto Zedillo testified in the 1994 slaying of a ruling party presidential candidate, marking the first time a sitting president has given evidence in a Mexican criminal investigation, party officials said Thursday.
Mario Aburto is serving a prison sentence for the slaying.
A source at the attorney general’s office said Zedillo gave written evidence April 14 in the 1994 assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Colosio was shot twice after a campaign rally near Tijuana. Zedillo replaced Colosio as the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
Zedillo discussed a “political angle” that prosecutors are pursuing, congressman Manuel Gonzalez said.
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