Victoria. In 2004 he was elected a local deputy for the fourteenth district. From 2005 to 2009 he served as secretary of health of the state of Tamaulipas, and oversaw the construction of new, modern health centers. He participated in numerous health campaigns directed at both children and adults, notably a nutritional program aimed at families of limited means. In 2009 Torre was elected to the 61st legislature of the Chamber of Deputies for the fifth district headquartered in Ciudad Victoria, a district that encompasses the municipalities of Hidalgo, Güemez, Mainero, Padilla, San Carlos, San Nicolás y Villagrán. He received the second highest number of votes in the election. He served as coordinator of PRI deputies from Tamaulipas and was a member of the health commission. He proposed a reform to Article 9 of the General Law on Education with the aim of improving national educational models, pointing to Tamaulipas as a national model for the teaching of English in all primary schools. Candidacy for governor of Tamaulipas On March 14 Torre was named PRI candidate for the governorship of Tamaulipas. On April 10 he was named candidate of Todos Tamaulipas, an electoral alliance comprising the PRI, the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), and the New Alliance Party (PANAL). Assassination On the morning of June 28, 2010, while traveling to General Pedro J. Méndez International Airport to board a flight to the city of Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, for a campaign event, Torre was murdered along with six of those in his entourage. The deputy for Matamoros, Baltazar Hinojosa Ochoa, and the former governor of the state of Coahuila, Enrique Martínez y Martínez, were booked to travel with Torre Cantú to the airport during the day of his assassination. Nonetheless, Hinojosa and Martínez did not attend, and it is unknown why. See also List of politicians killed in the Mexican Drug War References External links — Al Jazeera through YouTube (Video) Blog del Narco: Photos of the massacre of candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantu 30 June 2010. Accessed 4 Feb 2013. 1964 births 2010 deaths People from Ciudad Victoria Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Tamaulipas Mexican surgeons Assassinated Mexican politicians Politicians killed in the Mexican Drug War 21st-century Mexican politicians Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Deaths by firearm in Mexico Autonomous University of Tamaulipas alumni Autonomous University of Tamaulipas faculty Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico