Murder of Tecate mayoral candidate coordinator reported; On the Matamoros-Victoria road, 5 Emecistas were injured in armed aggression
Six days before the elections, attacks on candidates or members of their campaign teams intensified in the states of Tamaulipas, Baja California, Puebla and Morelos, leaving one person dead and five injured, as well as an attack with Molotov cocktails. to a tent and the home of a flag bearer.
Five members of the team of Pedro Salazar Rodríguez, Citizen Movement (MC) candidate for the mayor of Jiménez, were injured after a shooting attack on the Matamoros-Victoria highway, reported the Tamaulipas Security Spokesperson. The five injured people are part of the politician’s advance party, who was not traveling with them.
The attack was perpetrated around 7 p.m. at the entrance to the municipality of Santander, where gunmen from a moving van fired their weapons against the Emecistas, among whom was Dante Rodríguez, the leader of the first councilor of Salazar Rodriguez’s list. .
The leader of MC in Tamaulipas, Juan Carlos Zertuche, condemned the attack.
Security sources revealed that alleged criminals fought gunshots with State Guard officers who helped the injured. At the site of the attack, the campaign closing event was organized, which would take place this Tuesday at the main entrance to Jiménez.
The Security Spokesperson detailed that the injured were transferred to the High Specialty Hospital and General Hospital; In the latter they interned Dante Rodríguez, candidate for councilor, Gumaro Guadalupe P. and Homar H.
Santander is one of the central regions of the entity where acts of violence have worsened in the last two months. It is located 100 kilometers from San Fernando and 98 kilometers from Ciudad Victoria.
In this context, Cristian Vázquez González, campaign coordinator of Dario Benítez Ruiz, candidate of the Baja California Solidarity Encounter Party (PESBC with local registration) for the municipal presidency of Tecate, was shot to death around 11 a.m. yesterday by three men who attacked him when he was running on the athletics track of the Eufrasio Santana sports unit.
Agents from the State Attorney General’s Office located seven long gun casings and one short gun casing; Soldiers from the Mexican Army arrived at the crime scene.
Vázquez González was the first councilor of Ensenada who arrived on the ticket of the independent candidate Omar García, during the administration of Marco Novelo in the period 2016-2019. Previously, he was a cultural promoter in the port of Ensenada and founded the civil association Pluma Joven.
They throw Molotov cocktails
In Puebla, José Chedraui Budib, the standard bearer of Let’s Make History for the mayor of the city of Puebla, reported an alleged attack with Molotov cocktails on his campaign offices, in the Las Ánimas neighborhood. In a radio interview, the politician blamed his PAN opponent, Mario Riestra Piña, for the attack.
He announced that he will file a complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office and assured that what they want to do is violate this election. I pointed directly to Mario Riestra and his entire campaign team and I demand that the municipal police be attentive to what is happening so that people can leave in peace.
In Morelos, Víctor Manuel Amado de León, candidate for the Social Encounter Party for the municipal presidency of Coatlán del Río, reported that his house was shot at, and minutes before, the attackers placed a blanket with threatening messages against him.
The police reported that the shots were fired against the facade of the home, near the city hall headquarters, from moving vehicles; there were no injuries.
Yesterday, in Oaxaca, the municipal trustee Gaudencio Hernández and a person whose identity is unknown, were executed in an attack in the municipality of Santiago Amoltepec in the Sierra Sur of the state, reported the state prosecutor’s office.
Source: jornada
