Two mayoral candidates have been killed in two different parts of Mexico as the country heads to elections in June.
Attorney General, Irving Barrios confirmed that Center-right mayoral candidate, Noe Ramos of Ciudad Mante was fatally stabbed in the northeasternstate of Tamaulipas.
Meanwhile, in the southern state of Oaxaca, another mayoral candidate Alberto Antonio Garcia, was also found dead, two days after he and his wife Agar Cancino, who is the mayor of San Jose Independencia, were reported missing.
Cancino was found alive.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had earlier in the month ascribed the violence to drug cartels’ efforts to control local politics.
He “They make an agreement and say, ‘this person is going to be mayor; we don’t want anyone else to register to run,’ and anybody who does, well, they know” what to expect.
