The mayoral candidate of the Mexican municipality of Moroleón for the Citizen Movement party, Alma Rosa Barragán Santiago, was assassinated Tuesday afternoon while leading a proselytizing event in the violent state of Guanajuato, central Mexico.
"We strongly condemn the attack in which Alma Barragán, a Citizen Movement candidate for mayor of Moroleón, lost her life," Libya, Libyan Secretary of the Government of Guanajuato, Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, wrote on Twitter, minutes after the murder.
The attack occurred around 6 pm in Moroleón
, the same city where eight days ago the candidate for local deputy for the alliance made up of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Juan Guzmán Ramírez, suffered a gunshot attack, but survived.
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Barragán was at a campaign event, on the outskirts of the municipality, about 2 miles (4 kilometers) from where the attack on Guzmán Ramírez occurred, when she was attacked with bullets.
The candidate died at the scene and two other people were injured and were taken to hospital.
Vehicle in which the candidate for municipal presidency was assassinated by the Movement Citizen Party (MC) Alma Rosa Barragán, in Moroleón, Guanajuato state, Mexico, on May 25, 2021. EFE / Str
"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."
"We are desperate."
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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 largest number of intentional homicides committed in Mexico.
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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.
Investigation agents guard the site where Alma Rosa Barragán was murdered in Moroleón, Guanajuato state, Mexico.EFE / EFE
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 municipal delegate of the party, Juan Ignacio de la Cruz, was also wounded. of the Government of Guanajuato, 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.
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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 Etellekt consultancy.
In the midst of this violent climate, Mexico will celebrate its election 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.
With information from EFE.