Horrific moment Mexican mayoral candidate is SHOT DEAD after inviting voters to meet her - as son vehemently denies links to drugs cartel A video released on social media Monday showed the moment Alma Barragán was assassinated in Guanajuato, Mexico, on May 25 Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Tuesday that two suspects linked to the mayoral candidate's murder were arrested Monday Barragán was in the running for the mayor's seat of Moroleón, a city in the central state of Guanajuato On Saturday, newspaper El Heraldo de México reported that her son, Francisco Sánchez, is a high-ranking leader in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel