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By Lourdes Cruz
Cancun, Mexico, May 14 (EFE).- The murder of local government official Ignacio Sanchez Cordero radically changed the election picture in Puerto Morelos, a southeastern port city that is the source of the potable water consumed in Cancun, Mexico’s leading tourist destination.
A widow since that fateful Feb. 24, Blanca Merari Tziu Muñoz decided to follow in her slain husband’s footsteps and become the mayoral candidate in that municipality for the Juntos Hacemos Historia (Together We’re Making History) coalition, which includes the nationally ruling Morena party.
One of her chief rivals is the candidate of the Fuerza por Mexico (Force for Mexico) party, Tirso Esquivel Avila, who some local residents believe was behind the death threats Sanchez Cordero received prior to his untimely death.