Puerto Vallarta.— A few meters from the District 5 bar, where the former governor of Jalisco was assassinated, the PRI Aristotle Sandoval Díaz, is the La Leche restaurant, in which they kidnapped the children of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, four years ago.
Both properties are on the boulevard Francisco Medina Ascencio, the main hotel and commercial avenue of Vallarta Port, in which it is not common for acts of violence such as the one that happened yesterday morning to occur, according to some inhabitants of this city.
Last night, the activities in bars, restaurants and hotels developed normally, while elements of the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office They continued with the proceedings in Altamar Plaza Gourmet, where the District 5 bar is located, with support from the perimeter surveillance of the Army and the municipal police.
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Between the exit and entrance of people in the shopping center in front of the bar, Victoria Macedo, a young photographer, considers what happened to be a sporadic event and says she feels safe in this tourist city.
“These are events that hardly occur in this area, I have been living here for 31 years and I feel safe,” she said while waiting for the truck to go home, to a street where the former governor was murdered.
Antonio Gonzalez, who is a waiter in an Italian restaurant on the boulevard Francisco Medina AscencioHe commented that on Thursday night he left work around midnight and that until then everything seemed calm in the area.
However, he said that his companions who stayed suddenly heard gunshots and movement of vehicles and patrols. They never assumed that the result would be the death of a politician.
“It is not common for these events to happen, the avenue is always busy, with a lot of movement of tourists in restaurants, hotels and bars,” said Antonio.
Daniel Jiménez, a young student, agreed that it is not common for murders to occur on this avenue and considered that the cases that have been registered “are because they are already personal things.”
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In an interview with THE UNIVERSAL, the former spokesman for Aristóteles Sandoval, Gonzalo Sánchez, stated that the former president was on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, a place he frequented a lot.
He assured that the PRI never left the state of Jalisco when he left office, despite the fact that he received death threats from organized crime during his tenure, and that he was a regular visitor to restaurants where he photographed himself with people.
A group of investigating agents Yesterday, the Jalisco prosecutor’s office interrogated several employees at the scene to recover the evidence that had disappeared, according to what the prosecutor Gerado Octavio Solís announced, who has been in Puerto Vallarta since yesterday.
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