EL MANTE, Tamaulipas.- Édgar Noé Ramos Ferretiz, candidate for mayor of El Mantewas murdered this Friday, April 19, while touring the streets of the Azucarera neighborhood in this municipality south of the state of Tamaulipas.
The candidate of the PRI-PAN alliance ‘Fuerza y Corazón por Tamaulipas’, was greeting residents of this municipality, when Suddenly, several men approached him and stabbed him. and then they ran away among the people.
After this unfortunate event, elements of the State Guard and the Mexican Armywho cordoned off the area, while First aid personnel confirmed that Édgar Noé Ramos no longer had vital signs.
An operation was immediately implemented that extended to the highway and local roads, this to search for those responsible for the candidate’s murder PAN member, who had not requested security from the Government of Mexico to make your tours.
The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Tamaulipas reported that it became aware of the attack suffered by the candidate, so investigative police and experts went to the place to process the area and collect evidence, which would allow the clarification of these and give with him or those possibly responsible.
“As soon as more information is available, it will be made public knowledge, to the extent that the investigations allow,” the authorities explain.
Violent electoral process 2024
The 2024 electoral process is already the most violent in history and in at least four entities it must be analyzed whether there are conditions to carry out the election, Two non-governmental organizations that monitor the events of political violence in the current electoral period.
The counts reveal that In the current process there are between 24 and 25 applicants, pre-candidates or assassinated candidates in the period from September 1, 2023 to April 1, 2022.
Added to this are dozens of cases of attacks, kidnappings, disappearances, attacks, threats or intimidation that candidates and politicians have suffered throughout the country.
The Electoral Laboratory organization Until yesterday, there were 156 attacks on applicants and people related to the electoral process, of whom 51 were murdered; 25 of them were applicants.
While the organization Integralia reported, until yesterday, 300 incidents of political violenceassociated with 399 victims, which implies an average of 1.8 victims daily. He said 24 aspirants or candidates have been murdered. However, last night it was reported the appearance alive of the morenista Adrián Guerrerowho appeared on Integralia’s list.
“The 2023-2024 electoral process is already the most violent in the modern history of Mexico,” said Integralia in its update of the Political Violence Report.
He said that in During the reference period there were 161 murders, 100 threats and 85 attacks. The rest of the attacks are distributed between kidnappings, disappearances and other forms of violence.
While the Electoral Laboratory organization, when disseminating its Second preliminary report on electoral violence yesterday, pointed out that The current process has already surpassed the acts of violence recorded in 2018.
