Santiago mayor found dead by Magdalena Rosova

The body of Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of Santiago, was found on Wednesday. Few days before he was abducted by suspected members of a local drug cartel. The officials suspect he was targeted for his efforts to stop the corruption. Security forces found the body of the mayor near Mexico's richest city. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, who is fighting against drug cartels himself, condemned the assassination of Cavazos. In his Twitter update Calderon wrote that the murder forced him to redouble his efforts to fight against the criminals. Cavazos, 38, was mayor from Calderon's conservative National Action Party. He was educated in the US. His body was found on a rural road! outside of Santiago. He was found blindfolded and with tied hands. The area was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers and helicopters as dozens of residents lit candles and wept in Santiago's square. According to the Alejandro Garza, attorney general in the state of Nuevo Leon, which includes also Santiago, Calvazos was shot three times. Garza accused drug cartels of being responsible for the murder. Governor of Nuevo Leon, Rodrigo Medina asked Calderon to send more troops to the area. Medina thinks that Cavazos had been killed because of his efforts to fight the corrupt police. The mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia said Cavazos had been threatened directly by drug gangs also last year. Mayor Mauricio Fernandez said that when Cavazos had taken the office, the criminals had asked him to join them otherwise they had promised him to eliminate him. Santiago ha become a staging post for drug gangs that smuggle narcotics into the United States.

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