Federal deputy elected by the PRI-PAN-PRD, Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, died whereas being handled in a non-public hospital in Culiacán, after being shot within the north of the town.
The previous rector of the Autonomous College of Sinaloa (UAS) and founding father of the Sinaloa Occasion (PAS), was the sufferer of the assault at roughly 11:00 p.m. locally of La Presita, about three kilometers alongside the Worldwide Freeway, north of the town of Culiacán.
Some collaborators took him to a non-public hospital the place he obtained medical consideration, however the former Secretary of Well being additionally died whereas being handled.
Who was Hector Melesio Cuen?
Cuén Ojeda was rector of the UAS within the interval 2005-2009, and since then he generated a wealth of actual property, laboratories, eating places and created the Sinaloense Occasion with sources from the college establishment, from there to hunt elected political positions and obtain his obsessive ambition of being the governor of Sinaloa.
Nonetheless, it at all times allied itself with different political events, initially with the PRI, then with the PAN, passing via the PRD and MORENA.
Nonetheless, by not acquiring sufficient votes, he regularly distanced himself from these events, till he once more joined the PAN-PRI-PRD alliance, the place in 2024 he achieved a federal proportional illustration seat.
In 2010, Cuén Ojeda sought to be the PAN candidate for governor of Sinaloa, however Manuel Clouthier Carrillo and distinguished PAN members objected, so he as a substitute ran for mayor of Culiacán, supported by the PRI and the New Alliance Occasion (Panal).
Cuén received, however remained in workplace for less than 13 months as a result of he requested go away to run for the Senate of the Republic, on a ticket with José Fernando González Sánchez. He misplaced, ending in third place.
Stung by the defeats, the previous rector created his Sinaloa Occasion (PAS) in 2012, competing within the native elections in Sinaloa. The get together received three seats. Melesio Cuén, Robespierre Lizárraga and María del Rosario Sánchez Zatarain.
He was motivated by these Pyrrhic achievements and in 2016 he wished to ally himself with the PAN to be a candidate for governor, one thing that prompted rifts between the PAN and the MC, so Cuén opted to ally himself with Movimiento Ciudadano. This PAS-MC alliance reached 267 thousand votes. The PAS, by itself, obtained 249 thousand 652 votes. The MC obtained 17 thousand 377 votes.
In 2018, Cuén competed once more for the Senate, this time on a ticket with PAN candidate Sylvia Treviño, nominated by the PAN-PRD-MC alliance; they got here in third place with 243,230 votes. (The PAN contributed 159,896 votes, the PRD 30,999 and the MC 52,735 votes).
