BOOK / KILL THE CANDIDATE. Bernardo (BEF) Fernandez, F. G. Haghenbeck

GRAPHIC NOVEL Who ordered the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio? That question continues to linger in the air even twenty-five years after the largest political assassination in Mexico's recent history, the investigations and inquiries of which were so surreal as to make even the most far-fetched detective novels pale in comparison. In Killing the Candidate, F.G. Haghenbeck (author of The Devil Made Me Do It, on which the Netflix series Diablero was based) and Bef (author of Maria Speaks) have undertaken their own investigation, in graphic novel format, through the character of Elsa, a young journalist who is commissioned to write a book on the subject. Drawing on elements such as drawings and fables written by the confessed killer, Mario Aburto, who was mysteriously taken to a beach for two hours, without the presence of a judge, just after the Lomas Taurinas attack in Tijuana, the journalist will delve into the depths of the labyrinthine rot of Mexican justice and politics, searc