They murder Deputy and his brother

Unknown people murdered with bullets to the Guatemalan opposition Deputy Valentin Leal, re-elected by a region controlled by the drug trade, and a brother, a day before the general Otto Pérez right takes over the Presidency and start its functions the new Congress.

"We are deploring the murder of Deputy Valentin Leal", died Friday in the attack along with a brother, he told the press Pérez, who will be sworn in Saturday as President for the next four years, in replacement of the social democratic Álvaro Colom.

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Leal was re-elected in the general election of September by the opposition party democratic freedom renewed (leader, right), whose presidential candidate Manuel Baldizón, was defeated in second round in November by general r Perez, of the right-wing party Patriot.

Had been elected by the Department of Alta Verapaz (250 km to the North of the capital), which has become in u000arecent years in an area controlled by drug cartels, and where governed by five months a State of emergency decreed in December 2010 by Colom in an attempt to regain the territory.

According to witnesses, men on motorcycles fired at the car in which the Member of Parliament.

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