A Guatemalan cardiologist. murdered filmed this wednesday in a residential area of the capital of the Central American country, as confirmed by various sources. According to the Volunteer Fire Department, the doctor, identified as Mario Meza, was attacked with a firearm in his vehicle while traveling on Los Próceres boulevard, one of the busiest streets in southern Guatemala City. As EFE has confirmed, the Ministry of Public Affairs (Prosecutor’s Office) and some other officials are at the site of the attack on the doctor in his luxury car.
According to local media, Meza was professionally linked to the “Herrera Llerandi” hospital in the capital, where its director, Francisco Galindo, was assassinated in the same area in December 2022. Meza was also the son-in-law of businessman Halil Musa, who was shot and killed in his car in 2009, along with his daughter, Marjorie Musa, in a crime that killed lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg that same year. In a video he left behind, Rosenberg accused the government of President Álvaro Colom Caballeros (2008-2012) and his wife Sandra Torres Casanova of ordering the killing of Halil Musa and Marjorie Musa..
Torres Casanova is seeking the presidency of the Central American country in next Sunday’s runoff against progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo de León.
According to official data, Guatemala recorded 4,263 homicides in 2022, 4.5 percent more than in 2021.