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At least 34 candidates have been murdered since campaigning began in April, with the assassination clear-up rate close to zero Friends and family mourn during the wake of mayoral candidate Alma Barragan.She was killed while campaigning for the mayorship of the city of Moroleon, in violence-plagued Guanajuato state. Photograph: Armando Solis/AP Tuesday started off like any other day on the campaign trail for José Alberto Alonso, a union leader running for mayor in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco: he kissed his family goodbye, boarded his Nissan Extreme SUV and headed off to start knoc...

At least 22 criminal groups dispute Mexico City Some have alliances with criminal organizations with an international presence to carry out their objective IVÁN MEJÍA Executions in broad daylight, multi-homicides with high-caliber weapons, and rebellions are part of the scenario between gangs seeking control of the city considered one of the largest in Central America and where more than nine million people live. A recent report prepared by the Secretariat of Citizen Security ( SSC) of the capital lists the following criminal groups, among them the different factions of La Unión ...