Posted on 06/12/2018 9:01:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Fernando Purón had just finished an election debate with his rival congressional candidates in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, when a well-wisher asked to join him for a selfie.
But as he posed for the photograph outside the auditorium, a bearded gunman stepped up behind the pair and shot Purón in the head.
The cold-blooded murder on Friday – captured by a CCTV camera – has cast a harsh light on the stunning levels of violence in Mexico and the risk taken by those who run for elected office in the country.
Purón was the 112th political candidate murdered in Mexico since September 2017, according to Etellekt, a risk analysis consultancy.
And the country is bracing for more bloodshed before 1 July elections, when voters will pick a new president, renew congress and fill hundreds of state and local positions.
The motives for the murder remain uncertain, although Purón had received death threats during his stint as mayor of Piedras Negras, where he had 10 bodyguards and was said to have incurred the displeasure of the city’s dominant crime group, the notoriously ruthless Zetas.
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Silence from MSM feed this to your local talk show
Selfies can be dangerous.
Piedras Negras is your typical border shithole. When I worked there, I was forbidden from crossing alone, or staying overnight. I waited so long for a ride back across the border that I just went to a local hotel. They seemed shocked (and worried) that I wanted to stay there. When I tried to leave to get dinner, the locked me IN the hotel to keep me safe.
” has cast a harsh light on the stunning levels of violence in Mexico”
And the present and past presidents have the nerve to tell us how to run our Republic.
Lies. These people are just like us, only they have a different skin color. It's racist if you don't want them as a next door neighbor. Racist, racist, racist!
And yet, we continue to allow people from this craphole country come here, and actually come in.
When feeding this to your local talk show host suggest they emphasize not trusting unreliable mainstream for real news.
And we’re supposed to turn in our guns in order to reduce violence.
That we share a nearly 2,000 mile long sieve of a border with a violent failed state & population that hates us should motivate any citizen here to arm up & practice situational awareness.
Between the corrupt government, all the way from the president to the local constable, and the country wide control by the drug lords, Mexico is a hell hole. As much as I feel sorry for the innocent citizen of Mexico, the culture seems to breed a criminal mentality.
This is the culture of death that America does not need in our country!
Does anyone know where Hillary was at the time?
Oops, I guess he won’t win the Presidency of Mexico...
This is the democrat party run by the Clintons and obama etc.
These killings only happen because children are separated from their families at the border by Trump.
Mexico is a third world hell hole, competing with the likes of Somalia and Yemen for the “worst country to be in” trophy. That’s why Mexicans want to be “from” Mexico, just not “in” Mexico. Build the wall.
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