Assassinated Left-Wing Candidate Wins Local Election in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Assassinated Left-Wing Candidate Wins Local Election in Mexico


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Hernandez was gunned down during a rally in central Yurecuaro on May 14, while campaigning for the elections
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Published 10 June 2015 [/font]

A Morena candidate killed in pre-election violence has won a municipal vote in the troubled Mexican state of Michoacan.


Deceased leftist candidate Enrique Hernandez won the local elections in the municipality of Yurecuaro, in Mexico’s Michoacan state, according to results released Wednesday.

Representing the National Regeneration Movement (commonly referred to as Morena), Hernandez received 39 percent of the vote in the municipality during Sunday's elections. Both his photograph and name appeared on the ballot, even though he was killed three weeks earlier.

Hernandez was gunned down during a rally in central Yurecuaro on May 14 while campaigning for the elections. He was one of eight electoral candidates killed nationwide, in what was described by many Mexicans as the most violent vote in years. Dozens of ordinary Mexicans were killed or kidnapped in political violence, with 21 campaign-related killings, as armed groups battled to sway the results of the vote.

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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Assassinated-Left-Wing-Candidate-Wins-Local-Election-in-Mexico-20150610-0102.html

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1. Luis Donald Colosio

Unfortunately this seems like business as usual in Mexico ..

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/mar/22/tijuana-colosio-lomas-taurinas-pri-mexico-politics/