Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Jessica Wax-Edwards
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murieta, the Priísta candidate for the 1994 Mexican presidential elections. On the 23rd March 1994 Colosio was assassinated during a rally in Lomas Taurinas, in the city of Tijuana. The gunman, Mario Aburto Martínez, was arrested on the scene and confessed to the murder but, although the official investigation concluded that he acted alone, public opinion has questioned this official resolution. Such a high-profile and public assassination had not occurred in Mexico since the murder of President Álvaro Obregón in 1928. But in 1994, an already tumultuous year given the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional’s (EZLN) declaration of war on the State, the assassination of Colosio had left Mexico with an international reputation for instability and violence. The candidate’s murder shook the nation and the motivation for the assassination has never been satisfactorily resolved and remains a topic of unrest in the collective public memory. This is evidenced by the plethora of literature and documentaries on the subject such as El Caso Colosio (2010) a documentary produced by the Discovery Channel and Héctor Aguilar Camín’s La Tragedia de Colosio (2006).
For more info, contact Tanguy Harma: tharm009@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan 2015 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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