COTIJA, Mexico — Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role than before in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts. The country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged targeted assassinations of mayoral and other local candidates who threaten their control. On Wednesday, the last official …
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Attacks on political candidates in Mexico’s violence-torn southern state of Chiapas have left at least 14 people dead in recent days, local authorities and candidates said Sunday. On Thursday, a gunman opened fired at a campaign rally in a small town about 80 miles from the Guatemalan border, killing six people including a young girl and mayoral …
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Assailants tossed at least one explosive device at a police station in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, police said Wednesday, as a massive search continued for 16 police employees abducted at gunpoint on a local highway. that the groups clash.” López Obrador said the men worked at a local prison, apparently as guards or administrative staff, …
