In Tamaulipas he murder of Noé Ramoshe mayor licensed by Mante Citywhat I was looking for get re-elected as PAN-PRI candidate in that municipality, it can hardly be attributed to the organized crime. Noé Ramos was a politician very close to former governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, whose candidacy had been blocked by the TEPJF just a few hours before, it was stabbed to death at a public event.
Noah, who operated politically and governed in one of the most critical points due to the presence of the drug trafficking in the country, for two years He had reported death threats against him and his family.. But Governor Americo Villarrealdecided to take away the security escort that the licensed mayor of El Mante also had a year ago.
Noé requested this custody again from the state government on at least three occasions through three letters that Ramos sent in May and June of last year, to the Secretary General of the State Government, Héctor Joel Villegas: in them he specified that on the 27th May 2023, in December 2022, the escort that he had received months before had been taken away.
In those writings We were not He demanded the return of his security because he had received death threats and even warned that if anything happened to him or his family it would be the responsibility of Governor Américo Villarreal and his security secretary, Sergio Chávez. The complaints were ignored. In another text he revealed threats at public events, and even for that reason, on December 14, 2022, he went to Congress to ask for protection from the state government.
Of course what they did was first take custody of him and then ignore his requests. The murdered mayor said that his greatest risks came from his main local political rival, the now Morena candidate, Patty Chío de la Garza, a candidate who had been directly imposed by Governor Villarreal in a decision that was not made by the militancy in Ciudad Mante, but by the government offices of Ciudad Victoria.
There are no arrests for Noé's murder despite the fact that he was stabbed to death at a public event. If there had been security, at least the aggressor could have been arrested. But someone had decided that, despite everything, that candidate would not have protection even if he was threatened, and had requested for a year, during three offices, that security from the state government and to operate in an area with a high incidence of organized crime. Because? Because he was a political enemy of the governor.
It is a crime that is a direct product of government negligence and disinterest in protecting candidates. It is of little use that even President López Obrador says that protection will be given to candidates who request it, even without doing the corresponding risk analysis if, after requesting it for a year, the authorities decide not to protect an applicant who undoubtedly required that protection. protection.
If we add the murder of a candidate in Oaxaca, kidnapped along with his wife, the current municipal mayor, which also occurred this weekend, we now have at least 17 candidates murdered since the electoral campaign began, if we expand the circle to leaders, There are more than 50 unregistered applicants and direct relatives and there are more than 150 acts of violence. All cases, strictly speaking, have remained unpunished. Of the 17 murders of candidates, there is only one detainee, who has not yet been prosecuted. In no case are the murderers intellectual and much less do we know the motives for these crimes. The promised security is so scarce that none of them had protection, they would have requested it like Noé Ramos or Gisela Gaytán, the Morena candidate in Celaya, whose crime many believe could have originated in the successors of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, but due to the impulse of Gisela's internal opponents within Morena itself, where local sectors did not want her candidacy, imposed they said by Ricardo Sheffield.
In the case of the Oaxacan candidate, Alberto Antonio García, Morena's treasurer and candidate for the municipal presidency of San José Independencia, both he and his wife, Agar Cancino, current mayor of that municipality, were kidnapped. Two days after the kidnapping, the candidate was murdered and his wife was found alive, although no further details have been given about his situation in the state prosecutor's office or in Tuxtepec. Shortly before, the former PRI deputy and three-time municipal president, Heriberto Ramírez, had been murdered. That crime also remains unpunished.
In Baja California Sur, where I was this weekend, Rogelio Núñez Drew, political advisor to the candidate for deputy of the Fuerza por México party, for district IV in Baja California Sur, Yusahara Dahiren Álvarez Manríquez, was kidnapped on Friday, April 19 in the city of La Paz. He was located a few days later, severely beaten. There is also the case of the organizational secretary of the PAS in Sinaloa, kidnapped for several days and so attacked that he decided to leave political life.
What security can the authorities boast about for the candidates? Not only is it not provided, but the crimes afterwards go unpunished without exception and this encourages even more violence, whether it comes from organized crime or political revenge, as daily as criminal actions and in many cases fueled by each other.
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