Mexico: a mayoress candidate was assassinated in a political act

05/25/2021 11:43 PM

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Updated 05/25/2021 11:52 PM

The candidate for mayor of the Mexican municipality of Moroleón for the Citizen Movement party,

Alma Rosa Barragán Santiago

, was

assassinated

on Tuesday afternoon while leading a political event in the violent state of Guanajuato.

"

We strongly condemn the attack

in which Alma Barragán, candidate of the Citizen Movement for mayor of Moroleón, lost her life," Libya, Libyan Secretary of the Government of Guanajuato, Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, wrote on Twitter, minutes after her death.

The attack occurred around 6 p.m. (local time) in Moroleón, the same city where the candidate for local deputy for the alliance formed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD),

Juan Guzmán

, had been eight days ago.

Ramírez

, suffered a firearms attack from which he survived.

Crime scene, where Alma Rosa Barragán Santiago, candidate for Mayor of the Mexican municipality of Moroleón for the Movimiento Ciudadano party, was murdered.

Photo EFE

Barragán was at a campaign event, on the outskirts of the municipality, 4 kilometers from where the attack against Guzmán Ramírez occurred, when she

was attacked with bullets

.

The candidate

died at the scene

and two other people were injured and taken to hospital.

"We make an energetic call to the authorities to investigate and guarantee justice for

this brutal attack,

" tweeted the national coordinator of the Citizen Movement, Clemente Castañeda.

While in a statement, the party demanded from the authorities "prompt justice, a

thorough investigation

and punishment of those responsible for this outrageous event."

Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez

, former attorney general for the state of Sonora and candidate for mayor of the city of Cajeme,

belonged to this same party

, who on May 13

was assassinated in a campaign event

.

Barragán is the

third candidate to be assassinated

in this electoral process in Guanajuato, a state that since 2018 has concentrated the

highest number of

intentional

homicides

committed in Mexico.

The first victim was

Juan Antonio Acosta Cano

, who was a candidate for the National Action Party (PAN) for Mayor of Juventino Rosas and was assassinated on January 12,

while exercising

in the streets of said municipality.

Alma Rosa Barragán Santiago, the candidate for Mayor of the Mexican municipality of Moroleón who was assassinated.

Photo: Twitter

Subsequently,

Alejandro Galicia Juárez

, candidate for councilor for the PRD in the municipality of Apaseo El Grande, died in a gunshot attack, in which the party's municipal delegate, Juan Ignacio de la Cruz, was also wounded.

According to the Guanajuato Government Secretariat, there are eight candidates - six men and two women - who have so far requested some measure of personal security because they feel that

their integrity is at risk

.

The electoral campaign in Mexico is marked by strong violence, with

at least 88 politicians assassinated

, 34 of whom were candidates or candidates, according to the consulting firm Etellekt.

We strongly condemn the murder of our candidate in Moroleón, Alma Rosa Barragán.

We accompany your family and friends in these times of pain.

The violence in our country has to stop, we demand a serious and expeditious investigation from the authorities.

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- Citizen Movement |

Orange Movement (@MovCiudadanoMX) May 26, 2021

In the midst of this violent climate, Mexico will celebrate its electoral day on June 6 to elect 500 federal deputies, 15 of 32 state governors, 30 local congresses and 1,900 city councils, in what are considered

the largest elections in the country

.

EFE source

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