Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico’s elections loom
The next president must make the country safer
It has been a bloody month for Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. On May 19th a candidate running in next month’s local elections was attacked, and five members of his team shot dead. That came days after a mayoral candidate was killed with five others, and an apparent gang shoot-out in which 11 people died.
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