Mexico's leading presidential candidate is stopped by masked men at checkpoint
NPRMexico's leading presidential candidate is stopped by masked men at checkpoint Enlarge this image toggle caption Aurea Del Rosario/AP Aurea Del Rosario/AP MEXICO CITY — Mexico is a country in the midst of a deadly turf war between rival cartels and government security forces. On Sunday, Claudia Sheinbaum, the leading presidential candidate in Mexico, was stopped at one of those roadblocks by a group of men covering their faces with ski masks. Tiziano Breda, who studies political violence in Mexico at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, says it's hard to see an incident like this as anything but a threat to Mexico's leading presidential candidate. The government of López Obrador, he said, has customarily dismissed incidents like this, because if it admits that organized crime or some other group is trying to intimidate Mexico's leading presidential candidate in such a crass way, it would be a tacit acknowledgment that "things are really out of control."
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