Candidate for Mayor’s Office, 3 of his supporters killed during the campaign rally in Mexico

A candidate for mayor and three of his supporters were shot dead on Sunday in a campaign event in the state of Veracruz of the East of Veracruz, said the state governor, who marked the last politician to be attacked by violence in the country.

Yesenia Lara, the candidate of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s brunette party for the mayor of Texistepec, was identified by local media as the murdered politician.

The images posted online during a live Facebook broadcast by the politician show people running and shouting while shooting are smiling in a motorcycle and followers procession that carry Morena flags.

Other images shared online seemed to show bodies on the street.

“We will find those responsible for the cowardly murder of the candidate and supporters of Morena in Texistepec; four dead and three injured,” published the governor of the state of Veracruz, Rocio Nahle, published on social networks.

“No position or office is worth the life of a person.”

The state attorney general’s office confirmed on social networks that he had launched an investigation.

Lara had published several images on Facebook, showing her campaign throughout the region.

“The strength of our youth is the vitality that motivates me to continue walking day by day,” he wrote only a few hours before the shooting.

Criminal violence has seen about 480,000 people killed in Mexico since 2006.

Politicians attacked in Mexico

The attacks against politicians are common in Mexico, particularly at the local level, due to violence linked to posters, corruption and trade of multimillionaire narcotics.

The murder occurs two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, a councilor in the western state of Jalisco de México, was shot dead in a hospital. Last month, José Luis Pereira, main member of the Government of the city of Teocaltiche, was shot and killed While dinner at a restaurant in Jalisco.

In December 2024, a Mexican congressman who was a member of the ruling coalition was Dead thrown In Veracruz.

Approximately two months before that, a mayor was Killed and beheaded in the southern state of Guerrero. The following month, a former prosecutor and a local police officer was arrested In relation to the spooky murder.

In June 2024, a Mayor was killed In southern Mexico, less than a week after another politician was killed in the same region.

That same month, a place councilor He was shot dead while leaving his house in Guerrero. His murder arrived a few days after the mayor of a city in western Mexico and his bodyguard killed outside a gymjust a few hours after Sheinbaum’s presidential victory.

In March 2024, a The mayor was shot dead While he was in a restaurant with his 14 -year -old son in Morelia, the capital of the state of western Michoacán. His son survived.

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