Mayor candidate and 3 supporters were murdered in Varagrus

State officials said that the mayor’s candidate and his three supporters were murdered on Sunday during a campaign in Varagruz’s Texistbek.

Maranna and Green Party mayoral candidate Yesania Laura Gutters and her supporters participated in a campaign procession on a city and municipalities in the south of Varagruz. Three more people were injured in the armed attack.

A Video Laura was streaming directly on her Facebook account, and may hear about 20 shootings sounding. The newspaper reform has reported that the candidate greets women in their hands when the shooting began.

State Governor Rosio Nahley and Varagruz Attorney General (FGE) announced that they would kill the mayoral candidate and three on social media.

“No office or post is worth a person’s life. We are going to arrest those responsible for this cowardly murder of candidate and Morena supporters Textebec; 4 people died and 3 were injured. I advised @Fge_veracruz and the police (criminals) should not stop until they find it. ” Maranna wrote in Governor X.

Said FGE Three men were killed besides Lara, he competed to win the mayor’s post Texistbeck in an election on June 1 on the same day that citizens across Mexico select judges The country’s first judicial elections.

The Attorney General’s Office said that all three injured people were getting medical care in a post to X and Facebook just before midnight on Sunday. It said it was investigating the crime.

Media reports and FGE report indicates that the attack was made by at least two people. The specific purpose of the offense was not immediately released. President Claudia Shinebam Said on Monday morning That she is not aware of the impulse of the attack.

Laura, 49, the wife of the late Enrik Archelles, former councilor in Texistbek Was murdered in 2022. On Sunday morning on his Facebook page, he wrote, “The strength of our youth, inspires me to walk day by day.”

Maran’s mayor candidate German Anuvala Valencia in the northern Varakruz municipality of Kaxkihu came to the candidate’s murder after 12 days. Shot and killed.

On June 1, the new mayors will be elected in the 212 municipalities of Varagruz.

Political violence is a big issue in Mexico

Attacks on politicians and political candidates occur with a dangerous frequency in Mexico. Most of the victims are elected or interested officers, such as mayors, councilors and mayoral candidates at the municipal level.

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According to Integicalia, a consultative company -based consultant, there were 104 “political violence”, including 50 massacre in the first quarter of 2025. While more, 104 incidents indicate a 59.2% decline compared to the first quarter of last year, Integrated reported in a statement.

In the first trimester of 2024, a large number of political violence came to the election on June 2 before the election of thousands of municipalities, state and federal authorities.

In the first quarter of this year, 81.7% of those affected by political violence said they were current or former municipal officials or people who attract positions at the municipal level.

A large number of incidents of political violence at the municipal level are proof that “that will face the weakness of the government, and the infiltration of the organized crimes particularly.”

The Central Mexican state, Morolos, has recorded political violence in the first quarter of 2025, with a total of 17 and any other company. Varagruz was second with 13 political violence, followed by Oksaka (12), Puebla (11) and Kurareo (9).

In the first quarter of the year, the party Morina, who encountered a large number of political violence, is in office at the federal level, in the majority of Mexican states and In more than 1,000 municipalities.

Maranna said that the spread of attacks against politicians is “part of” the concentration of the posts of the people’s elections that the concentration of the posts of the people’s election is “explained by” by occupying Morena.

With reports from ReformOvarian Aristeki newsOvarian CBS message And Finance