A crime that wets the morning
Roberto Castañeda Tejeda, the man who headed the Irapuato Municipal Drinking Water Board, did not arrive at his office this Thursday. They found him lifeless inside his white truck, on Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Boulevard, in front of a Soriana store. Armed men approached him and shot him minutes after 8:00 in the morning.
The scene is so repeated that it hurts: a public official, on his way to work, intercepted and eliminated. Security elements arrived at the shooting report to find only the final result. The question that hangs in the air is heavier than humidity: why?
The official words and the silence that screams
The municipal president, Lorena Alfaro, came out quickly with a statement. He confirmed the obvious—death—and painted the engineer as “an exemplary public servant” and “a great human being.”
“His loss hurts and outrages us,” he said.
He promised coordination between security and the prosecution to clarify the incident. He assured that he would not go unpunished. They are the phrases from the script that are repeated every time violence reaches someone in charge. What the bulletin does not say is what exactly Castañeda managed in Japami, who could be affected by his decisions or if he had received previous threats.
A man of integrity, committed to Irapuato, according to the official version. His truck became his coffin in the heart of the Central Zone. While authorities promise to investigate, people wonder if we will ever know what twisted the spigot so badly as to justify this ending.
