num_pages: 100
description: Who killed the Mexican presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio?  In March 1994, an event shocked all Mexican citizens: the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the presidential candidate most likely to become the next President of Mexico.  The presumed assassin, Mario Aburto, was captured and is currently in Prison.  Was Aburto acting alone, or was he part of a larger conspiracy to eliminate Luis Donaldo Colosio?  For the first time ever, twenty years after this tragic event, this book details the investigation that tried to provide answers to the question of the lone assassin. The author book analyzes the findings, clues, witness interviews and prosecutor findings, and offer insight into what happened in Colosio's assassination.  The book is written by Jesús Zamora Pierce, who participated directly in the investigation as advisor to the prosecution, led by Miguel Montes and Olga Islas.   Mr. Zamora Pierce has been a lawyer for more than 52 years, practicing criminal law in Mexico. He was president of the Barra Mexicana de Abogados (lawyer association in Mexico), President of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias Penales (most prestigious legal science organization in Mexico), winner of the Premio Nacional de Jurisprudencia (national legal award), has published tens of criminal law books in Mexico, has given more than 600 conferences, and many of his books are mandatory texts in colleges and higher level education institutions in Mexico.
language: English
title: Citizen Zero: The assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio