A mayoral candidate was murdered in central Mexico on Friday, local authorities said, less than 48 hours before general elections plagued by the killing of at least 25 political hopefuls.
A statement from the Puebla state prosecutor’s office confirmed the death of Jorge Huerta Cabrera on Friday afternoon, in the city of Izucar de Matamoros where he was a candidate.
The prosecutor’s office said it was investigating.
Huerta Cabrera’s wife and one of his colleagues were wounded in the attack, authorities added.
He was a candidate for the Green Party, an ally of the governing Morena party.
“His life was taken from him in an unjust and violent way,” another local candidate, Eliseo “El Chino” Morales, said in a statement posted on social media.
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Source: Guardian Newspaper
