{"id":6410,"date":"2025-05-12T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/mayoral-candidate-3-of-her-supporters-shot-dead-during-campaign-rally-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:16:13","slug":"mayoral-candidate-3-of-her-supporters-shot-dead-during-campaign-rally-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/mayoral-candidate-3-of-her-supporters-shot-dead-during-campaign-rally-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate, 3 of her supporters shot dead during campaign rally in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A mayoral candidate and three of her supporters were shot dead on Sunday at a campaign event in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the state governor said, marking the latest politician to be targeted by violence in the country.<\/p>\n

Yesenia Lara, the candidate of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena party for mayor of Texistepec, was identified by local media as the slain politician.<\/p>\n

Footage posted online during a Facebook Live\u00a0broadcast<\/a> by the politician shows people running and screaming as gunshots ring out at a procession of motorcycles and supporters carrying Morena flags.<\/p>\n

Other images shared online appeared to show bodies in the street.<\/p>\n

“We will find those responsible for the cowardly murder of the Morena candidate and supporters in Texistepec; four dead and three wounded,” Veracruz state governor Rocio Nahle posted on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“No position or office is worth a person’s life.”<\/p>\n

The state’s attorney general office confirmed on social media<\/a> that it had launched an investigation.<\/p>\n

Lara had posted several images on Facebook, showing her campaigning throughout the region.<\/p>\n

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Yesenia Lara, Moreno party candidate for mayor of Texistepec, Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Facebook \/ Yesenia Lara Guti\u00e9rrez<\/p>\n

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“The strength of our youth is the vitality that motivates me to keep walking day by day,” she wrote<\/a> just hours before the shooting.<\/p>\n

Criminal violence has seen around 480,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006.<\/p>\n

Politicians targeted in Mexico<\/h2>\n

Attacks on politicians are common in Mexico, particularly at local level, due to violence linked to cartels. corruption and the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade.<\/p>\n

The killing comes two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, a councilmember in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco, was gunned down in a hospital. Last month, Jose Luis Pereira, a senior member of the Teocaltiche city government, was shot and killed<\/a><\/span> while dining at a restaurant in Jalisco.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, a Mexican congressman who was a member of the ruling coalition was\u00a0shot dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Veracruz.<\/p>\n

About two months before that, a mayor was\u00a0murdered and decapitated<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the southern state of Guerrero. The next month, a former prosecutor and local police official was\u00a0arrested<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in connection with the grisly killing.<\/p>\n

In June 2024, a\u00a0mayor was killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in southern Mexico, less than a week after another politician was assassinated in the same region.<\/p>\n

That same month, a local\u00a0councilwoman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was gunned down as she was leaving her home in Guerrero. Her murder came a few days after the mayor of a town in western Mexico and her bodyguard were\u00a0killed outside of a gym<\/a><\/span>, just hours after Sheinbaum’s presidential win.<\/p>\n

In March 2024, a\u00a0mayor was shot dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0while at a restaurant with his 14-year-old son in Morelia, the capital of western Michoacan state. His son survived.<\/p>\n

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