Was a 'Legally Dead' Man Just Elected Mayor in Southern Mexico? Agence France-Presse
go to original July 12, 2013

San Agustín Amatengo, a small town in Mexico's Oaxaca state, on Sunday elected as mayor a man who had been declared legally dead. (Carlos Salinas/AFP)

A man who was allegedly certified as dead almost three years ago has won a race for mayor in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Leninguer Raymundo Carballido Morales won the election in the small town of San Agustin Amatengo by just 11 votes last Sunday as the candidate of a coalition of conservative and leftist parties.

But now prosecutors are investigating whether Carballido Morales faked his own death in 2010 in order to escape arrest in connection with the gang rape of a woman in 2004.

A living and breating Carballido Morales actually campaigned in the election, appearing in public events and giving interviews to reporters.

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