{"id":25350,"date":"2011-01-24T14:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T21:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=25350"},"modified":"2011-01-24T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T21:31:28","slug":"former-auditor-candidate-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/former-auditor-candidate-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former auditor candidate dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12030\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030\" title=\"Chavez, Errol\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Chavez-Errol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Errol Chavez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Errol Chavez, last year\u2019s Republican state auditor candidate who was diagnosed with brain cancer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/auditor-candidate-chavez-diagnosed-with-brain-tumor\/\">weeks before the election<\/a>, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SINGL\">Stuart Ingle<\/a> asked his colleagues for a moment of silence today after announcing that Chavez died last night with family at his side.<\/p>\n<p>From a Senate GOP news release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDuring his thirty-one-year tenure at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Chavez conducted money laundering investigations; directed the administration\u2019s policy implementation in Europe, Latin America and the United States; and supervised several hundred agents in various assignments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter retiring from DEA, Chavez became the executive director of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), a federal drug-prohibition enforcement program.\u00a0In this position, Chavez was responsible for administering and auditing $11 million of federal funds directed to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChavez served as president of both the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association and the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association, an international law enforcement organization with 12,000 members.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Errol Chavez, last year\u2019s Republican state auditor candidate who was diagnosed with brain cancer weeks before the election, has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-25350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}