Lenin Carballido died of a diabetic coma in 2010. Despite having been dead for three years, however, Lenin Carballido got elected on
Sunday as new mayor of San Agustín Amatengoa, a small village in the state of Oaxaca
in southern Mexico.
A dead man cannot be the newly elected mayor of San Agustín
Amatengo, argue Oaxaca state prosecutors.
Sure enough, an investigation by state prosecutors revealed
that relatives of Lenin Carballido had their hands in Lenin Carballido's official death.
At the time of his death, Lenin Carballido, whose full name
is Leninguer Raymundo Carballido Morales,
was wanted for having allegedly participated in a 2004 gang rape.
After Lenin
Carballido’s relatives presented his death certificate to prosecutors, he was
off the hook.
That is until he won the election as mayor on Sunday.
"When he registered as a candidate, he presented all
his paperwork, his birth certificate, a letter stating he had no criminal
record," said Rey Morales, the state leader of the PRD. "He fooled
the prosecutors' office, he fooled the office of records, he fooled electoral
officials."
While Oaxaca prosecutors are conducting a thorough
investigation into the dead man’s case, the about 1,500 residents of San Agustín
Amatengo are taking the matter more lightly – if they can’t use a dead man as a
mayor, they will simply use Lenin Carballido’s representative.
Politicians – a species of its own.
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