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A former intelligence agent was arrested in connection with the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in Tijuana.

The arrest sparks intense debate in Mexico: Is it a breakthrough or political distraction from the government’s current security crisis?

The controversy and conspiracy theories swirling around the death of Colosio have been likened to the ongoing debate in the United States about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

MEXICO CITY — A breakthrough in the decades-long investigation of a political assassination that convulsed the nation?

Or a political stunt meant to distract from more pressing issues?

Those are the questions that

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