A candidate for the town hall and three of his supporters were killed on Sunday during a campaign event in the east of the Mexican state of Veracruz, said the governor of the State, marking the last politician who will be targeted by violence in the country.
Yesenia Lara, the candidate of the Morena party of President Claudia Sheinbaum for the mayor of Texiste des, was identified by the local media as the killed politician.
Images published online during a live facebook broadcast By the politician shows that people run and scream as shots sound in a procession of motorcycles and supporters wearing Morena flags.
Other images shared online seemed to show bodies in the street.
“We will find those responsible for the loose murder of the candidate and supporters of Morena to Texistetec; Four dead and three wounded, “said Governor of the state of Veracruz Rocio Nahle Published on social networks.
“No position or office is worth a person’s life.”
The Office of the State Attorney General Confirmed on social networks that he had launched an investigation.
Lara had published several images on Facebook, showing her campaign throughout the region.
Facebook / Yesenia Lara Guérrez
“The strength of our youth is the vitality that motivates me to continue walking day after day”, ” She wrote A few hours before filming.
Criminal violence has seen around 480,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006.
Targeted politicians in Mexico
The attacks on politicians are common in Mexico, especially at the local level, due to the violence linked to cartels, corruption and drug trade of several billion dollars.
The murder comes two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, member of the Western State of Mexico, of Jalisco, was shot in a hospital. Last month, Jose Luis Pereira, principal member of the government of the city of Teocaltiche, was Turned and killed By dining in a restaurant in Jalisco.
In December 2024, a member of the Mexican Congress who was a member of the ruling coalition was fell in Veracruz.
About two months before that, a mayor was murdered and decapitated in the southern state of Guerrero. The following month, a former prosecutor and responsible for the local police was decree As part of the macabre murder.
In June 2024, a The mayor was killed In southern Mexico, less than a week after another politician was murdered in the same region.
This same month, a premises advisor was killed as she left her house in Guerrero. His murder came a few days after the mayor of a city in western Mexico and his bodyguard killed outside a gymnasiumOnly a few hours after the presidential victory of Sheinbaum.
In March 2024, a The mayor was shot In a restaurant with her 14 -year -old son in Morelia, the capital of western Michoacan. Her son survived.