{"id":1156817,"date":"2021-12-26T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1156817"},"modified":"2021-12-26T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:50:22","slug":"top-mexican-political-operator-charged-in-mayoral-candidates-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-mexican-political-operator-charged-in-mayoral-candidates-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Mexican Political Operator Charged in Mayoral Candidate&#039;s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-mexican-political-operator-charged-in-mayoral-candidates-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1156817&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1135661328-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Mexico\u2019s ruling party faces a major controversy following the arrest of one of their top political operators.&nbsp; Prosecutors charged the man with being one of the masterminds behind the murder of a mayoral candidate. The arrest caused an apparent rift between federal and state politicians from the MORENA party over claims that the case is a political maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Veracruz Attorney General\u2019s Office announced the arrest of Jose Manuel Del Rio Virgen, a top political operator who worked as a technical advisor at Mexico\u2019s Senate. The charge stems from the July 4 murder of Rene Tovar, a mayoral candidate for the Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizen\u2019s Movement) Party in that state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">La Fiscal\u00eda General del Estado informa que elementos de la polic\u00eda ministerial cumplimentaron orden de aprehensi\u00f3n en contra de Jos\u00e9 Manuel \u201cN\u201d por su presunta participaci\u00f3n en la comisi\u00f3n del delito de homicidio doloso calificado<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FGE Veracruz (@FGE_Veracruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FGE_Veracruz\/status\/1473671016165650437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A group of gunmen shot the politician two days before the election. Officials awarded the election to his campaign chief Omar Ramirez. Police arrested Ramirez soon after state authorities and named him as one of the masterminds, Spain\u2019s <em>El Pais<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/mexico\/2021-12-22\/detenido-jose-manuel-del-rio-virgen-secretario-tecnico-del-senado-por-el-asesinato-de-un-candidato-de-movimiento-ciudadano.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the initial arrest, a state judge in Veracruz has moved the case along and ordered that Del Rio be held without bond. The arrest and prosecution sparked outrage from federal senators from Mexico\u2019s MORENA Party \u2014 including Senate Leader Ricardo Monreal, a close associate of Del Rio Virgen. MORENA is the ruling party in Mexico and was started by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). The party has claimed to have ended corruption and the war on drugs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In video and written statements, Monreal spoke on behalf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/morena.senado.gob.mx\/2021\/12\/22\/detencion-de-jose-manuel-del-rio-ejemplo-del-abuso-de-poder-en-veracruz-acusa-ricardo-monreal\/\">MORENA senators<\/a> where he claimed that the charges against Del Rio were political in nature and abuse of power by the state government.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Currently, Veracruz is led by Governor Cuitlahuac Garcia who is also from the MORENA Party. Veracruz is one of Mexico\u2019s most violent regions where rival cartels continue to fight for control of a large shipping port and various highways connecting Central Mexico and the border state of Tamaulipas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby&nbsp;and senior Breitbart management.&nbsp;You can follow him on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IldefonsoOrtiz\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ildefonso-Ortiz\/731511040246659\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:Iortiz@breitbart.com\"><em>Iortiz@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brandondarby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><em>and&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brandonmichaeldarby\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:bdarby@breitbart.com\"><em>bdarby@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s ruling party faces a major controversy following the arrest of one of their top political operators.\u00a0 Prosecutors charged the man with being one of the masterminds behind the murder &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}