2023-08-17 05:37:26
A Guatemalan cardiologist was murdered shot this wednesday in a residential area of the capital of the Central American country, as confirmed by various sources. The doctor, identified as Mario Meza, was attacked with a firearm in his vehicle when he was traveling along Los Próceres boulevard, one of the busiest in the south of Guatemala City, according to the Volunteer Fire Department. The Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) and several other authorities are at the scene of the attack on the doctor, in his high-end car, as EFE confirmed.
According to local media, Meza was professionally linked to the “Herrera Llerandi” hospital in the capital, whose director, Francisco Galindo, was assassinated in December 2022 in the same area. Meza was also the son-in-law of businessman Khalil Musa, shot to death in his vehicle in 2009 along with his daughter, Marjorie Musa, in a crime that led to the death of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg that same year. Rosenberg accused, with a video that he left behind, the government of President Álvaro Colom Caballeros (2008-2012) and his wife, Sandra Torres Casanova, of ordering the murder of Khalil Musa and Marjorie Musa.
Torres Casanova seeks the presidency of the Central American country next Sunday in the second round of elections against the progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo de León.
Guatemala recorded 4,263 murders in 2022, 4.5 percent more than in 2021, according to official data.
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