Citizen Zero: The Assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio

In March 1994, an event shocked all Mexicans: 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. Who killed Colosio? Was Aburto a lone assassin or was he part of a grand conspiracy to eliminate Luis Donaldo Colosio? For the first time ever, this book describes in detail the investigation to answer these questions. Citizen Zero analyzes the facts, clues, testimony of hundreds of witnesses and more than 60,000 pages of criminal investigation to determine who killed Colosio. Citizen Zero is written by Dr. Jes s Zamora Pierce, who was advisor to the prosecutors that investigated the crime: Miguel Montes and Olga Islas.


About the Author
Jesús Zamora Pierce has been a lawyer for more than 52 years, practicing criminal law in México. 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 law award), has published tens of criminal law books in Mexico, and many of his books are mandatory texts in colleges and higher level education institutions in Mexico.