Posted on 09/05/2009 3:33:41 PM PDT by NorwegianViking
Mexican candidate, his wife and 2 sons killed Published: 9/5/09, 6:10 PM EDT
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen killed a state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons in their home Saturday in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico.
Jose Francisco Fuentes Esperon, 43, was found dead along with his wife, 38, and two sons aged 9 and 13, in the state capital, Villahermosa, according to state Attorney General Rafael Gonzalez Lastra.
Fuentes Esperon was a former university rector, and was widely known in the state capital.
The state government immediately offered to provide protection for any candidate who wants it ahead of Oct. 18 elections. Gonzalez Lastra said in a statement that President Felipe Calderon called Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier "to express his support and stress his decision to help in investigating the case to the end."
"There are no words to express these events. We are deeply moved and at the same time indignant," Gonzalez Lastra said.
The statement offered no information on the method or possible motive in the killings, but said they were carried out "with cruelty and viciousness."
Local and state politicians have increasingly become victims of violence that has cost over 13,500 lives since Mexico launched an offensive against drug cartels in late 2006.
Also Saturday in the northern state of Chihuahua, a severed human head was found placed on a car hood in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, along with a message relating to drug cartels, state prosecutors reported.
And Ciudad Juarez municipal police reported that one of their officers was shot to death outside his home late Friday.
The federal attorney general's office reported Saturday that instructors of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration gave a course on drug addiction and prevention to federal and state prosecutors in Mexico. The course included instructions on organizing raids and other law enforcement activities, the office said in a statement.
no bodyguards?
Legalize drugs. The profit motive for importing drugs illegally vanishes. Those waging the wod have to earn an honest living.
Actually I care more about the family murdered in Mexico, it is a tragedy, than I do about drug abusers hurting themselves.
I don’t know whether this candidate and his family had bodyguards, but I believe Mexico is unsafe even for those who have bodyguards. I think Mexico is hopelessly corrupt and dangerous. If I were Mexican, I’d do whatever I had to to get to the U.S.
but we cant afford them here....and the problem follows them.
It’s time for a Mexican version of Los Pepes.
One day we might be looking back at the Crypts and the Bloods as cute and cuddly.
I agree. I meant that I would come to the USA, not that the USA should take me in! (Many Mexicans make good American citizens, but there needs to be a process and the borders should be sealed.)
Very tragic. The way things are going, it won’t be long until it finds its way into the U.S.
RIP.
Post of the month! Shoot, we could even train them, with a promise of monetary payback 10 years after they stage a successful coup.
Maybe we could send a wise Latina woman there to fix the problems Mexico is experiencing, after all they seem to know how to fix all of our countries problems.
Whats-his-face (Calderon) doesn’t want competition.
Wasn’t his election contested by the loser? What ever happened to him? Last I read he was setting up his own government (a while back now).
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mexico-drug-war14-2009aug14,0,6021381.story
RIP to all.
“Legalize drugs.” NOT!!!!!!
So if you legalize drugs, which I think is a terrible idea, the gangs and drug cartels will go back to their everyday job as doctors, teachers, engineers, etc... Puhleeezzee!
This must have been one of the few righteous politicians.
No, they won't go back to regular jobs; they'll just be out of business. How would they compete with big, American corporations in a legalized narcotics trade?
Imagine that Philip-Morris or one of the other big tobacco companies got into the legalized drug business. Could these cartels compete for the market with them? Of course not. They'd be driven out of business by people who don't shoot their rivals.
The American alcohol trade was violence free until Prohibition. It was violence free after Prohibition ended. During prohibition, however, those involved in the alcohol trade were just as violent as drug traffickers are today.
This is simply awful and totally unacceptable. They should declare war on the bad guys until justice is carried out.
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