Tough-Talking Former Top Cop Wants to be Tijuana's Next Mayor Sandra Dibble - San Diego Union-Tribune
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A year after an assailant’s bullets left him paralyzed from the waist down, the tough-minded ex-police chief Julián Leyzaola Pérez is back in the public eye. But instead of chasing suspects, he’s pursuing votes — campaigning for mayor of Tijuana in the state’s June 5 elections.

“They took away my legs, and I can no longer fight with guns,” Leyzaola, 56, said in an interview at Mercado Hidalgo interrupted by admirers walking up to offer support. “But I can fight in a different way.”

By all accounts, it will be an uphill fight as he takes on candidates of the state’s well-entrenched political parties. Like most of Mexico, Baja California has been dominated by Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, and the National Action Party, the PAN. Independent analysts are not expecting an upset.

Leyzaola’s return has come at the invitation of Mexico’s Partido de Encuentro Social, a small party that has its origins in the Christian evangelical movement. Though not a member, he accepted their nomination, joining a field of 11 mayoral candidates, including two independents, who will be on the ballot.

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