Suspect Freed, Colosio Case Stalls
Citing insufficient evidence, a judge has acquitted Othon Cortes Vázquez, who has been detained for 18 months for his alleged part in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. Two others accused of giving false testimony were also released.
Mario Aburto is serving a 45-year sentence for the shooting, which most people believe was a conspiracy.
Pablo Chapa Bezanilla, the public prosecutor investigating the crime as a high-echelon conspiracy, has been removed from the case on orders from President Ernesto Zedillo.