PRI mayoral candidate assassinated in Chihuahua

Guadalajara -
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate for mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo in Chihuahua state has been found executed, governor César Duarte Jáque reported this afternoon.

Jaime Orozco Madrigal, 40, was kidnapped from his home by an armed commando team Monday evening. His bullet riddled body was found about noon today. Investigators say Madigral was shot 13 times with cartridges most likely fired from an AK-47, the drug war weapon of choice for cartels and organized crime operatives.

MGR reported on the violent zone surrounding Guadalupe y Calvo in December, shortly after a mass execution left 11 people dead. Drug traffickers took over the town for a dozen hours, leaving terror and destruction in their wake. Many in the area work in the marijuana and opium poppy fields for lack of other employment. They are paid up to $15 a day to cultivate and harvest the crops, more than three times the daily minimum wage in this country (59% of Mexicans remain trapped in underclass).

Through its Twitter account the PRI central committee called Madigral's murder "an attack against the Mexican state."

Since the drug war was launched on Dec. 11, 2006, at least 30 Mexican mayors have been executed by organized crime.

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