Omar
Gomez Lucatero, an independent candidate who aspired to be the mayor
of Aguililla in the state of Michoacan, was murdered next to the
local cemetery, which is close to a military barracks. His death
brings the number of politicians murdered to 120 since September
2017, since the official beginning of this latest electoral season,
the most violent in the country's history.
The
governor of Michoacan vowed to carry out detailed investigations to
find the responsible people of Lucatero's murder.
According
to local newspapers, Gomez was shot dead when exiting his home in Las
Palomas community, located in a region called “Tierra Caliente.”
The region is located between the states of Mexico, Guerrero and
Michoacan, and has a high presence of criminal organizations of
different sorts, including the Jalisco Nueva Generacion and the Nueva
Familia Michoacana cartels.
In a
video uploaded to social media, the cousin of Gomez Lucatero says an
armed group had arrived at the candidate's house and forced everybody
to leave the place before executing him. Trying to hold his tears,
his cousin blames the local candidate of the Revolutionary
Institutional Party (PRI), Osvaldo Maldonado, for the murder.
Gomez
was running as an independent candidate after he left the PRI. He
became the mayor of Aguililla shortly afterward in 2014 when Jose
Cruz Valencia was arrested and had to leave office.
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