MEXICO CITY – A prospective congressional candidate for Mexico’s center-left PRD and two other members of the party were murdered in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said Wednesday.
Carlos Martinez Villavicencio was seeking the PRD nomination for a federal congressional district in Oaxaca.
Martinez Villavicencio, PRD official Fidel Lopez and their driver, Bernardo Bautista, were ambushed Tuesday night while traveling in a vehicle with Mexico City plates near the town of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, the state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
The bodies of Martinez Villavicencio and Lopez were found inside the vehicle, while Bautista was discovered among some weeds about dead about 50 meters (164 feet) away.
Martinez Villavicencio, a former Oaxaca state legislator, served as mayor of Santiago Juxtlahuaca in 2009-2011.
The PRD demanded that state authorities “expedite the investigation so this case does not go unpunished.”
Mexicans will go to the polls July 7 to select federal lawmakers, nine state governors and 1,487 municipal officials.
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