( Spanish) –Mexican authorities opened an investigation this Friday into the possible kidnapping of local deputy Vicente Verástegui Ostos, allegedly committed in Tamaulipas, reported the Security Spokesperson and the prosecutor’s office of that state in the north of the country.
The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that, according to the complaint it received, the incident occurred between the municipalities of Xicoténcatl and El Mante. He added that members of the institution formed a team with members of the State Guard and the State Search Commission to locate the legislator.
Separately, the Security Spokesperson reported on its Facebook account that the Secretariat of National Defense and the National Guard, federal entities, also participated in the search operation.
Verástegui is a deputy of the opposition National Action Party (PAN) in the current Legislature of the Congress of Tamaulipas. Previously, he was mayor of Xicoténcatl in two terms, from 2005 to 2007 and from 2016 to 2018, as well as a federal deputy from 2018 to 2021, according to his resume.
The legislator has also been a businessman in the sugar sector and is the brother of César Augusto Verástegui Ostos, who was the PAN candidate for the government of Tamaulipas in 2022 and lost to the current governor, Américo Villarreal, from Morena.
Tamaulipas, located on the border with the United States, is one of the states in Mexico with the greatest problems of violence due to the operation of various criminal groups. Between January and August, in the entity there were 813 victims of intentional homicide and 28 of kidnapping, according to statistics from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). Of those 28 kidnappings, 13 occurred in August alone.
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