In the 2003 federal mid-terms, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the PRI ticket to represent the State of Mexico's 36th district during the 59th session of Congress.
[2][3] On 19 August 2011, Nava Altamirano was attacked by a group of armed men while attending a meeting of the local water committee in Zacualpan; a member of his security detailed was killed in the firefight, and four other people were injured.
The assailants initially abducted a member of the water committee, believing him to be the mayor; after realising their mistake, they returned for Nava Altamirano and took him with them when they left.
[4][5] His killer, whose drug trafficking and cultivation activities Nava Altamirano had resisted while in office, was sentenced to a 190-year prison term in 2018.
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