MEXICAN CANDIDATE, HIS WIFE AND 2 SONS KILLED

GUNMEN KILLED A STATE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE
AND HIS WIFE AND TWO SONS IN SOUTHERN MEXICO

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) – Jose Francisco Fuentes Esperon, 43, was found dead along with his wife, 38, and two sons aged 9 and 13, in the state capital, Villahermosa, in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico, according to state Attorney General Rafael Gonzalez Lastra. Fuentes Esperon was a former university rector, and was widely known in the state capital. The state government immediately offered to provide protection for any candidate who wants it ahead of Oct. 18 elections. President Felipe Calderon called Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier "to express his support and stress his decision to help in investigating the case to the end." "There are no words to express these events. We are deeply moved and at the same time indignant," Gonzalez Lastra said. The statement offered no information on the method or possible motive in the killings, but said they were carried out "with cruelty and viciousness."

Local and state politicians have increasingly become victims of violence that has cost over 13,500 lives since Mexico launched an offensive against drug cartels in late 2006. Also Saturday in the northern state of Chihuahua, a severed human head was found placed on a car hood in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, along with a message relating to drug cartels, state prosecutors reported.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Unfortunately, under the influence of illusory material energy, we accept this spot-life of only a few years as our permanent existence and thus become illusioned by possessing so-called country, home, land, children, wife, community, wealth, etc., which are false representations created by māyā (illusion). And under the dictation of māyā, we fight with one another to protect these false possessions. By cultivating spiritual knowledge, we can realize that we have nothing to do with all this material paraphernalia. Then at once we become free from material attachment.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"The Srimad Bhagavatam - Purport in Canto 1 - Chapter 8 - Verse 4"