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Sometimes don’t you just wish you could keep your mouth shut? That’s what Mayor Mauricio Fernandez has to be thinking today after he announced the death of his political rival hours before the man’s body was found. Mauricio Fernandez made the shocking announcement as he was being sworn in for another term as Mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico.

The problem with Mauricio Fernandez dropping such a bomb about the death of his political rival was the fact that the barefoot, blindfolded body wouldn’t even be found by authorities for another 4 hours. Not only had the body not been found, but it was found hundreds of miles away. It’s not like the body was in his neighborhood and he saw it leaving for work that morning.

During his re-election ceremony, Mauricio Fernandez said this:

‘Black Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for my head, was found dead today in Mexico City.’

Now one only has to open their eyes, throw in a little common sense and poof, you have instant probable cause for an investigation into Mauricio Fernandez for the suspicious murder of “Black Saldana”, aka Hector.

Of course the good mayor was asked point blank if he had anything to do with the death of his political rival; he said remarkably:

‘Sometimes there are coincidences in life. It’s better to look at it this way.’

I suppose it is better to look at it that way, especially when you just put yourself square in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. I know if I had implicated myself in a murder inquiry, I would want authorities to look at it as a coincidence.

Now the story does take another turn down a dusty twisted road; Mauricio Fernandez says that U.S. authorities had tipped him off during their investigations of drug cartels in the area that “Black Saldana” had planned on killing him (Fernandez).

If this is the case, then you could conceivably see how Mauricio Fernandez was well within his right to protect himself. It does appear that the murder was cartel related in some way, given the evidence at the scene. “Black Saldana” was found with three other bodies, his brother and half brother included. Notes were found on three of the bodies which read “for kidnapping”, while another read “The Boss of Bosses”, a nickname for a notorious drug cartel boss.

No matter how this investigation shakes out, don’t you suppose Mauricio Fernandez wishes he hadn’t announced that the body of his political opponent had been found before it was? Can anyone say Homer Simpson? D’oh!