Mexican authorities reported this Sunday of the shooting murder of Israel Delgado Vega, candidate of the ruling party for trustee of the municipality of Cuitzeo, in Michoacánstate in the west of the country, just a few hours before the start of voting.
The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) stated that Delgado Vega was 35 years old and was a candidate for the Labor Party (PT), the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), the coalition that supports President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
the murder It happened around 11 p.m. local time on Saturday. outside his house, in the town of San Juan Benito Juárez, by two men who shot him from a motorcycle with a .223 caliber assault rifle.
The victim He was a candidate for trustee on the slate headed by Rosa Elia Milan Pintorcurrent licensed mayor of Cuitzeo, who is seeking reelection for the same PT-Morena-PVEM alliance.
On June 1, 2021, Marcelino Pérez Aguilar, husband of Rosa Milan Pintor,
He died after an armed group attacked the vehicle in which both were returning from a proselytizing event with bullets. in the town of Mariano Escobedo, prior to the election that year and in which she won.
Meanwhile, on April 2, 2022, a
group of alleged hitmen kidnapped and murdered Francisco Díaz Rodríguezwho served as trustee of Milan Pintor, with no arrests made so far.
And just on May 21, the disappearance of José Bernardo Aguirre García, private secretary of Fernando Alvarado Rangel, was reported.
candidate of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) to the Mayor’s Office of Cuitzeo.
The facts reflect
electoral violence in Mexico, where the Government recognizes the murder of 22 candidatesbut independent groups record more, such as 34 reported by the consulting firm Integralia, which raises the figure to around 250 political homicides when including advisors, officials, family members and collateral victims.
In Michoacán, one of the states most affected by violence, 84 voting centers will not open due to insecurity or conflictsas reported by the National Electoral Institute (INE).
Cuitzeo is 35 kilometers north of Moreliacapital of Michoacán, where drug trafficking and organized crime groups dispute the theft of fuel from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipelines, a practice popularly known as ‘huachicol’.
The State Prosecutor’s Office specifies that in the current electoral process they have murdered Michoacán a total of nine pre-candidates, candidates or public officialsin addition to the disappearance of three more politicians.
