Benito Aguas Atlahua (9 March 1979 – 9 December 2024) was a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party (PVEM).
[3] He ran again for municipal president of Zongolica in the 2021 state elections, [es] this time for the Juntos Hacemos Historia coalition (Morena–PVEM–PT).
[9] Following the convening of the 66th Congress on 1 September, he served on the lower house's committees for infrastructure, migratory affairs, and Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples.
[10] On 9 December 2024, while eating lunch with his siblings in the town of Tepenacaxtla, municipality of Zongolica, Aguas Atlahua was shot at by an individual on a motorcycle.
[14] President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the attack and offered the governor of Veracruz, Rocío Nahle, the support of the federal Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection in investigating the crime.