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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ex-Congressman Luis Armando Córdova Díaz Murdered at Starbucks
A former congressman was murdered in a brazen shooting at a Starbucks cafe in Mexico. The ex-Mexican congressman's murder was detailed by the Spanish-language site El Financiero. That news site reported that the 56-year-old ex-politician Luis Armando Cordova Diaz was murdered on May 14, 2025, "inside a Starbucks branch located in the Valle Real subdivision" in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. The murder of Diaz came just hours after a beauty influencer named Valeria Márquez was gunned down in the same city while streaming live on TikTok, The Associated Press reported. There's no evidence the two executions are linked, however, and the motive for both murders is not entirely clear. "He was executed in broad daylight, in an act that reflects the level of violence and impunity in Mexico," PRI Leader Alejandro Moreno said of Diaz's homicide, according to Latin US. According to CNN, though, authorities say the shooting death of Marquez - by an assassin she thought was a delivery man - is "a suspected femicide – the killing of a woman or girl for gender-based reasons." Suspects have not been named in either. The ex-congressman was shot "at least 10 times in the head" when "two men arrived on a motorcycle" as he frequented the Starbucks with his wife and another person, the news site reported. He was a "local and federal deputy for the PRI" in Mexico, El Financiero reported. Video emerged showing the scene's aftermath. According to the Spanish-language site Latin U.S., the former congressman was also the party secretary and was a former mayoral candidate. What is PRI? According to Britannica, the acronym stands for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which is a "Mexican political party" that "dominated the country's political institutions from its founding in 1929 until the end of the 20th century. Virtually all important figures in Mexican national and local politics belonged to the party,"
National Post
15-05-2025
- National Post
Beauty influencer shot dead during her TikTok livestream at a beauty salon
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A social media influencer was shot to death while doing a TikTok livestream at a beauty salon in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, state authorities confirmed Wednesday. Article content Article content The stark show of violence fueled shock in the Latin American nation at a time when rival cartels have fought bloody wars for territorial control in much of Mexico. Article content Valeria Marquez, 23, appeared to have been speaking to a delivery man off camera on her livestream Tuesday when she was shot once in the chest and once in the head and collapsed, dying instantly. The model and beauty influencer was inside a beauty salon in the municipality of Zapopan, the fringes of Guadalajara, when it happened. Article content Article content Just a few hours later, a former congressman with the Mexican PRI party Luis Armando Cordova Diaz, was also shot dead in a cafe in the area. Article content Article content
