Mexican President: JFK Murder a 'State Crime'
López Obrador compares JFK's death to the assassination of a Mexican presidential candidate
Mexico’s president has characterized the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a “state crime,” the Associated Press reports.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the remarks two weeks ago while speaking about the 1994 assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, a candidate from Mexico’s PRI party, long-ruling at the time.
“I came to the conclusion a long time ago that this was a state crime,” the president said in regard to Colosio’s killing in Tijuana, according to AP.
The article goes on to say:
“It wasn’t the only conspiracy theory the Mexican president espoused Thursday.
López Obrador also claimed, without offering any evidence, that the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was also a ‘state crime.’”
López Obrador, former mayor of Mexico City, was elected president in 2018 after two previous unsuccessful runs for the office in 2006 and 2012.
Colosio’s convicted lone assassin, Mario Aburto, may soon be released on a leg…
