As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico’s bloodiest elections ...MEXICO CITY -- As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico’s bloodiest elections ever. One was from the governing Morena party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the other from the conservative National Action Party. A month earlier, on Jan. 5, the local leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and candidate for mayor of Suchiate, Chiapas, was killed. “That’s why they look to establish control at the municipal level.”Those local candidates have become more vulnerable under the security regime of the current president. He said the federal government would protect candidates for president, governor and Congress, and he asked state and local governments to provide security for those running for local posts.

Source: ABC News March 03, 2024 15:51 UTC