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Attacks on mayoral candidates in Mexico, 9 dead

2024-05-20 11:38:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Attacks on mayoral candidates in Mexico, 9 dead

Two attacks targeting mayoral candidates in Mexico's June elections have left nine people dead in the southern state of Chiapas, the prosecutor's office in the region plagued by organized crime said Sunday.

The two candidates survived, although one was injured, in the attacks on Saturday night and early Sunday in the municipalities of Villa Corzo and Mapastepec, it said in a statement. The attacks marked an escalation of violence in Chiapas against politicians aiming to seek office in the June 2 vote, when Mexicans will also elect a new president.

Last week, six people, including a minor and mayoral candidate Lucero Lopez, were killed in an ambush after a campaign rally in the municipality of La Concordia, which neighbors Villa Corzo. More than two dozen politicians have been killed since September last year, according to the NGO Data Civica.

The number rises to more than 50 people if relatives and other victims of those attacks are counted. The prosecutor's office said the attack in Villa Corzo targeted a motorcade carrying Mayor Robertony Orozco, who is seeking re-election for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's Morena party. Three people died in the attack and another later in hospital. Orozco was shot in both legs, the statement said.

Cartel rivalry 

In Mapastepec, attackers targeted the motorcade of mayoral candidate Nicolas Noriega, who escaped unharmed, although five others were killed and two people were wounded.

Rising criminal violence has seen more than 450,000 people killed in Mexico since then-President Felipe Calderon's government launched a controversial military offensive against drug cartels in 2006. The homicide rate has nearly tripled to 23 cases per 100,000 residents. since then.

Many Mexicans see insecurity as the most pressing challenge for the next government, according to polls. Electoral campaigns in Chiapas are often violent, but the situation has worsened due to an ongoing war between the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels in a region known as La Frailesca, which includes Villa Corzo and La Concordia.

The cartels are fighting for drug trafficking routes and control of other criminal enterprises such as extortion. Mapastepec is a key strategic area due to its proximity to the Pacific coast.


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