Moisés Villanueva de la Luz

Mexican politician
Moisés Villanueva de la Luz
Born(1964-11-17)17 November 1964
Mexico
Died17 September 2011(2011-09-17) (aged 46)
Huamuxtitlán, Guerrero, Mexico
Cause of deathHomicide
OccupationPolitician
Known forVictim of unsolved murder

Moisés Villanueva de la Luz (17 November 1964 – 17 September 2011) was a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Congress of Guerrero.

Villanueva de la Luz studied for a degree in Law and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of Guerrero, his political career in the Institutional Revolutionary Party progressed within the framework of the Confederación Nacional Campesina (National Peasant Confederation) in Guerrero, where he was regional coordinator and state political adviser, in addition to Visitor electoral trainer of the Agrarian agriculture, as well as Member of the Congress of Guerrero from 1999 to 2002. As the alternate federal deputy for Guerrero's 5th district, he succeeded Sofío Ramírez Hernández in that seat in the 61st Congress in 2009. On 30 March 2011 he took over leadership of the deputation and stood down as the owner in the Comisiónes de población, Fronteras y Asuntos Migratorios y Reforma Agraria (Chamber of Deputies was part of the Commission on Population, Borders and Migration Issues and Agrarian Reform).

He was reported missing on 4 September 2011 on the road between the cities of Chilapa and Tlapa,[1] in the Región de la Montaña, (Mountain Region) of the state of Guerrero. He was found murdered next to his driver on 17 September in Huamuxtitlán.[2][3][4]

In May 2020 an individual who had confessed that he had committed the double murder in exchange for a payment of 300,000 pesos from Mayor Willy Reyes was sentenced to 60 years in prison.[5]

See also

  • List of unsolved murders
  • List of solved missing person cases

References

  1. ^ Notimex (14 September 2011). "Desaparece diputado federal en Guerrero (in Spanish)". Noticieros Televisa. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Hallan muerto en Guerrero a diputado federal secuestrado (in Spanish)". El Universal. 17 September 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  3. ^ "Hallan muerto en Guerrero a diputado federal secuestrado (in Spanish)". Milenio Diario. 17 September 2011. Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  4. ^ MISSING CONGRESSMAN FOUND DEAD
  5. ^ "Sentencian a presunto homicida de diputado Moisés Villanueva de la Luz". El Sol de Acapulco. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  • Moisés Villanueva de la Luz on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)