Originally published on September 13, 2013 <br /><br />Mexican state legislator Osbaldo Esquivel Lucatero was killed in a machete attack in Morelia, the capital of the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Wednesday (September 11), according to officials. Esquivel Lucatero, a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, was killed at around 3:20 p.m. under an overpass on the Morelia-Patzcuaro highway while being interviewed by a journalist, Michoacan Attorney General Marco Vinicio Aguilera Garibay said.<br /><br />Esquivel Lucatero, who was with his brother, was inside of a pick-up truck as he was interviewed by a reporter from the Tierra Caliente region, the area where the legislator was from. Investigators say four men drove up in a white automobile and forced Esquivel Lucatero and his companions to exit the pick-up truck, and forced them to lie face down on the ground before attacking them with machetes.<br /><br />Paramedics who were called to the scene by eyewitnesses transported the men to the private Star Medica clinic. However, Esquivel Lucatero was pronounced dead two hours later.<br /><br />Esquivel Lucatero had previously served as mayor of Buenavista Tomatlan, a city in the Tierra Caliente region. A self-defense group was formed there in March to fight the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel.<br /><br />Esquivel Lucatero was arrested by federal prosecutors on May 26, 2009, along with 10 other mayors, 16 Michoacan state officials, a judge and several state police officers over suspicions that they had ties to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel in a plan dubbed "Operation Michoacanazo."<br /><br />The leftist politicians murder came less than a day after Oaxaca state legislator Everardo Hugo Hernandez Guzman, another PRD member, was killed by a lone gunman in the city of Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan.<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />TomoNews is your daily source for top animated news. We've combined animation and video footage with a snarky personality to bring you the biggest and best stories from around the world.<br /><br />For news that's fun and never boring, visit our channel:<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Subscribe to stay updated on all the top stories:<br />http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Stay connected with us here:<br />Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Google+ http://gplus.to/TomoNewsUS
