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11/3/2011- Mayor of the city of La Piedad, Michoacan, was shot dead Wednesday evening while campaigning for National Action Party (PAN) Michoacan gubernatorial candidate, Luisa María Calderón, President Felipe Calderón’s sister.

Photo Credit: El Universal. Mayor Ricardo Guzman Romero, right, is shown in a file photo with President Felipe Calderon, center, and Michoacan Gov. Leonel Godoy, left.

Jonathan Arredondo, spokesman for the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office, confirmed Thursday morning that the killing was an assassination executed as Guzman was on the campaign trail, distributing literature about Calderón’s run for the November 13th governor’s election. Around 7:30 pm, Guzman, accompanied by a security detail, approached a Jeep Liberty with three or four persons in it and was shot in the chest multiple times, the assailants escaping in an unknown direction.

With many witnesses at the scene and surveillance footage of the murder available, the pending investigation of the murder will be able to provide the public answers soon.

Guzman, called “the reformer” of La Piedad served two terms as secretary of the city council before his term as mayor. Fellow PAN city council members sung his praises in El Universal as one of the most involved mayors in promoting city culture and a humble politician.

The Los Angeles Times reported that mayors have been common targets in the intersectionality of political/narco violence, with 20 Mexican mayors assassinated in the last two years, cartels continue a firm grip on the political process. President Calderón publicly stated that Guzman’s assassination was a “cowardly murder” and pledged that a thorough investigation into the killing would be conducted.

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