State Legislator Gunned Down in Acapulco
 Associated Press
| | Acapulco's state legislator Jose Jorge Bajos Valverde lies dead inside his car after, killed by unknown gunmen, in the resort city of Acapulco January 4, 2007. (Reuters/Guadalupe Perez) |
A Mexican state legislator was gunned down in the center of Acapulco on Thursday on his way to an interview at a radio and TV station, city officials said.
Jorge Bajos Valverde, a member of the ruling National Action Party, was shot several times by assailants who stepped out of a white van blocking his path, said Gloria Mendez, a spokesman for Acapulco's Public Safety Department.
She said he died instantly and the motive for the attack was unknown.
Although a conservative, Bajos Valverde had defended Guerrero State Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, in several recent interviews.
In the last two years, Acapulco has been a hit by a wave of execution-style killings blamed on rival drugs gangs fighting over lucrative smuggling routes and a budding local drug market. |
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News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2007 
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