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Sunday's parliamentary elections are the largest in the history of Mexico and also the most violent with at least 136 politicians murdered since September, when the electoral process began
An image will forever be engraved in the Mexican election campaign: an aspiring MP takes a "selfie" and is immediately shot in the back.
Fernando Purón, candidate in the federal election of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), was killed when he took a photo with a supporter to leave a debate in which he spoke several times about the fight against Los Zetas, one of the most brutal cartels in Mexico, when he was mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila
Purón is only one of the 136 politicians who have been killed since the beginning of the Electoral process in Mexico in September (28 of them were pre-candidates and 20 other candidates given), according to consulting firm Etellekt
A significantly higher number than that recorded in 2012, when nine politicians and one candidate were killed, he adds.
This is just a sample – according to experts – of Luis Carlos Ugalde, a consultant, told AFP that these people were guaranteed that they "obey their instructions as a killer to pledges or as a "man of organized crime". former president of the Mexican Electoral Authority.
"They think that a politician is not going to compromise, negotiate, give in, they kill him," he says.
Violence in Mexico is growing by leaps and bounds. Corps mutilated, burned, abandoned on the roads; police and military ambush; women raped, their throat found floating in the rivers, are images that are repeated in recent years
– Death to journalists –
More than 25,300 violent murders were committed in 2017, the figure the higher since 1997 the official count of the Ministry of the Interior (Interior).
These crimes had as scenario the two tourist destinations, like Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, towards the most depressed areas of the country of 120 million inhabitants, of which little more than 50 million are immersed in poverty .
The violence also affects journalists in a country considered one of the most dangerous to practice journalism. The authorities have informed this Saturday of the badbadination of José Guadalupe Chan in the state of Quintana Roo (east). Chan worked for the news portal Playa News and his death made him the sixth communicator killed in 2018.
The reporter's latest report was the murder of a PRI activist in a nearby community Friday afternoon.
– "Silver or lead" –
There is growing evidence that mafias dedicated to drug trafficking and other crimes attempt to participate in political life, especially at the municipal level, to influence the results Elena Guillermo Zepeda, researcher at Jalisco College
"He is like the subject of money or lead," he warns
. Organized crime in states such as Guerrero (south) and Michoacán (west), with a greater number of victims and threatened candidates, has permeated the structures of local governments, as well as the social and economic life of
this is in addition to the establishment of clientelist networks that bring some benefit to the people, establishing their influence.
"We should ask ourselves how many candidates are not killed simply because they respond to organized crime," warns Ugalde
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