Record number of Mexican candidates killed in wake of Sheinbaum's presidential victory

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Mexico's election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday's vote.
Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a candidate who was running for a council seat in the town of Izucar de Matamoros, was gunned down in the attack, according to the state prosecutor's office.

The killing takes the number of assassinated candidates in the 2024 election season to 37, one more than during the 2021 midterm election when 36 candidates were killed, according to data from security consultancy Integralia.
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"It's possible that violence is being used as a means to define the election in advance, particularly when certain interests are perceived to be at risk in the event that a particular political project triumphs," said Armando Vargas, an Integralia researcher.
The consultancy has also counted 828 non-lethal attacks on candidates during the current election season, up from 749 since just Monday.

Analysts point to Mexico's mix of powerful drug cartels and often corrupt local governments as contributing to the dangers faced by candidates.
Earlier this week, a local mayoral candidate in southern Guerrero state was gunned down at point-blank range during a campaign rally.
He was among 560 candidates and election officials who have been given security guards by the government due to persistent threats.
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Why are they comparing a presidential candidate winning against the total death count of all politicians in different positions nationwide?

I could understand if the death count only included those running for president...

but they bringing up mayors and people running for local councils...
 
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Savvir said:
Why are they comparing a presidential candidate winning against the total death count of all politicians in different positions nationwide?
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If Trump or Clinton won and mad random politicians started getting murked here in the US it would be correlated as well :skip:

I get that it's Mexico and the Cartel, but shyt if this isn't worth discussing, then I sincerely apologize.

I know it's HYON all day, but it doesn't mean this isn't absolutely nuts.
 
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the elastic said:
If Trump or Clinton won and mad random politicians started getting murked here in the US it would be correlated as well
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If we had mad candidates getting murdered every year for decades...

then we wouldn't be tripping about dead candidates tbh...

welcome to Mexico

the social post is a non-story...

this new president has nothing to do with those deaths...
 
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