MEXICO CITY - A body believed to be that of a Mexican lawmaker who had been missing fornearly two weeks was found this weekend, local officials said on Sunday.
The body of a man fitting the description of MoisesVillanueva, a representative in Mexico's lower house ofCongress, was found on Saturday near a roadside in thesouthwest state of Guerrero, a spokesman for the localprosecutor's office told Reuters.
Villanueva had been missing since Sept 4.
"They are checking for a fingerprint match to confirm but all indications, such as the clothes hewas wearing, suggest that it is him," said Roberto Camps, the spokesman for the Guerreroprosecutor's office.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent the army to confront drug smugglers soon after hetook office in December 2006 and politicians have sometimes been targeted by gangs.
In June last year, a popular gubernatorial candidate in the northern Mexican state ofTamaulipas was gunned down by suspected drug hitmen in a brazen highway attack.
Torre's killing was the first big political assassination in Mexico since the 1994 murders ofpresidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.
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