López Obrador attributes the DEA leak to the Prosecutor's Office investigation into Colosio's murder: “It was revenge”. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, affirms that the file on the alleged illicit financing of López Obrador's 2006 presidential campaign is closed for the United States.
“I have been looking for an explanation for the reason for the attack, for an issue that supposedly arose in the 2006 election and that they have discarded for many years, why do they remove it?” he questioned.