Erik Súñiga
Erik Salvador Suñiga Rodriguez (19 November 1975 – 18 April 2020) was a Salvadoran-born Guatemalan politician. He was born in Nueva Concepción, El Salvador. From 2008 to 2019, he was Mayor of Ayutla, San Marcos.
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In December 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Súñiga as they believed that he was "a major drug trafficker" and that Súñiga controlled a drug trafficking organization and supplied cocaine to the Sinaloa Cartel.[1]
Súñiga died on 18 April 2020 of pancreatic cancer in Houston, Texas, aged 44.[2]
References
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- "Treasury Sanctions Guatemalan Mayor and His Drug Trafficking Organization". home.treasury.gov. December 19, 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
- Fallece Erik Súñiga, exalcalde de Tecún Umán señalado por Estados Unidos de narcotráfico (in Spanish)
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