Mexican politician beheaded, family slain

State officials confirmed that Fuentes, 43, a candidate for state legislature with the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who lived in the state capital Villahermosa, was killed along with his wife and children but provided no other details.
Beheadings and suffocations, often with plastic bags taped over the victim's heads, are the grisly trademark of criminals involved in Mexico's drug cartels.
Fuentes had nearly 40 percent support against 21 percent for his closest rival for the October 18 election, Tabasco media reported.
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