Who had Luis Donaldo Colosio killed? That question continues to float in the environment even twenty-five years after the greatest political assassination in the recent history of Mexico, whose investigations and investigations were so surreal as to make the most far-fetched police novel pale.

In Killing the candidate, F.G. Haghenbeck (author of The Devil forced me, on which the Netflix Diablero series was based) and Bef (author of Habla María) have been given the task of conducting their own research, in graphic novel format, through the character from Elsa, a young journalist who is commissioned to write a book on the subject. Supported by elements such as the drawings or the fables written by the confessed murderer, Mario Aburto, who was mysteriously taken for two hours to a beach, without a judicial presence, just after the attack of Lomas Taurinas, in Tijuana, the journalist will search for answers to the depths of the labyrinthine rot of Mexican justice and politics.

In the end, the only certainty that is reflected in Killing the candidate is that citizens are mere spectators of a perverse theatrical spectacle, where the powerful in turn run the country at their discretion, sometimes without even bothering to hide their flagrant acts of cynicism or ruthless corruption.