Machete killing: Mexico politician murdered during interview
- 11 years ago
Originally published on September 13, 2013
Mexican state legislator Osbaldo Esquivel Lucatero was killed in a machete attack in Morelia, the capital of the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Wednesday (September 11), according to officials. Esquivel Lucatero, a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, was killed at around 3:20 p.m. under an overpass on the Morelia-Patzcuaro highway while being interviewed by a journalist, Michoacan Attorney General Marco Vinicio Aguilera Garibay said.
Esquivel Lucatero, who was with his brother, was inside of a pick-up truck as he was interviewed by a reporter from the Tierra Caliente region, the area where the legislator was from. Investigators say four men drove up in a white automobile and forced Esquivel Lucatero and his companions to exit the pick-up truck, and forced them to lie face down on the ground before attacking them with machetes.
Paramedics who were called to the scene by eyewitnesses transported the men to the private Star Medica clinic. However, Esquivel Lucatero was pronounced dead two hours later.
Esquivel Lucatero had previously served as mayor of Buenavista Tomatlan, a city in the Tierra Caliente region. A self-defense group was formed there in March to fight the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel.
Esquivel Lucatero was arrested by federal prosecutors on May 26, 2009, along with 10 other mayors, 16 Michoacan state officials, a judge and several state police officers over suspicions that they had ties to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel in a plan dubbed "Operation Michoacanazo."
The leftist politicians murder came less than a day after Oaxaca state legislator Everardo Hugo Hernandez Guzman, another PRD member, was killed by a lone gunman in the city of Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan.
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Mexican state legislator Osbaldo Esquivel Lucatero was killed in a machete attack in Morelia, the capital of the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Wednesday (September 11), according to officials. Esquivel Lucatero, a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, was killed at around 3:20 p.m. under an overpass on the Morelia-Patzcuaro highway while being interviewed by a journalist, Michoacan Attorney General Marco Vinicio Aguilera Garibay said.
Esquivel Lucatero, who was with his brother, was inside of a pick-up truck as he was interviewed by a reporter from the Tierra Caliente region, the area where the legislator was from. Investigators say four men drove up in a white automobile and forced Esquivel Lucatero and his companions to exit the pick-up truck, and forced them to lie face down on the ground before attacking them with machetes.
Paramedics who were called to the scene by eyewitnesses transported the men to the private Star Medica clinic. However, Esquivel Lucatero was pronounced dead two hours later.
Esquivel Lucatero had previously served as mayor of Buenavista Tomatlan, a city in the Tierra Caliente region. A self-defense group was formed there in March to fight the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel.
Esquivel Lucatero was arrested by federal prosecutors on May 26, 2009, along with 10 other mayors, 16 Michoacan state officials, a judge and several state police officers over suspicions that they had ties to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel in a plan dubbed "Operation Michoacanazo."
The leftist politicians murder came less than a day after Oaxaca state legislator Everardo Hugo Hernandez Guzman, another PRD member, was killed by a lone gunman in the city of Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan.
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