Mexican candidate for mayor killed with four supporters at campaign rally in Veracruz

Mexico vows to hunt down killer of mayoral candidate

Election time can be killing time in Mexico

Mexican mayoral candidate gunned down during live broadcast of campaign rally

What began as a festive campaign march quickly turned into a scene of terror in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Sunday night when a mayoral candidate was gunned down alongside three other people.

Mayoral candidate and 3 supporters killed in Veracruz

A candidate for mayor and three of her supporters were murdered on Sunday during a campaign event in Texistepec, Veracruz, state authorities said. Morena and Green Party mayoral candidate Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez and her supporters were participating in a campaign procession through the streets of Texistepec, a town and municipality in the south of Veracruz, when gunfire broke out. Three other people were wounded in the armed attack. In a video La…

Criminals have shot and killed Yesenia Lara, Morena’s candidate for the mayor’s office of Texipec in southern Veracruz this Sunday night. Lara was leaving a rally and fraternizing with members of the Guinean party, in a caravan around the municipality, when the killers arrived on a motorcycle, according to the testimony of local reporters, and opened fire. In addition to Lara, three other people died in the attack, according to the Veracruz Pros…

Mexican candidate for mayor killed with four supporters at campaign rally in Veracruz

A mayoral candidate in Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's ruling party was killed this past weekend with four others during a campaign rally in the eastern state of Veracruz.

Videos show the moment when the bustling procession, made up of numerous people on motorcycles and carrying flags of Morena -the party of President Claudia Sheinbaum - are surprised by the sound of a burst of fire.