{"id":25143,"date":"2025-05-12T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mayoral-candidate-3-of-her-supporters-shot-dead-during-campaign-rally-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:19:27","slug":"mayoral-candidate-3-of-her-supporters-shot-dead-during-campaign-rally-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mayoral-candidate-3-of-her-supporters-shot-dead-during-campaign-rally-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate, 3 of her supporters shot dead during campaign rally in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A mayoral candidate and three of her supporters were shot dead on Sunday at a campaign event in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the state governor said, marking the latest politician to be targeted by violence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Yesenia Lara, the candidate of President Claudia Sheinbaum&#8217;s Morena party for mayor of Texistepec, was identified by local media as the slain politician.<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted online during a Facebook Live\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61571896041066\/videos\/1382434862906974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broadcast<\/a> by the politician shows people running and screaming as gunshots ring out at a procession of motorcycles and supporters carrying Morena flags.<\/p>\n<p>Other images shared online appeared to show bodies in the street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will find those responsible for the cowardly murder of the Morena candidate and supporters in Texistepec; four dead and three wounded,&#8221; Veracruz state governor Rocio Nahle <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rocionahle\/status\/1921803329199296666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No position or office is worth a person&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s attorney general office <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FGE_Veracruz\/status\/1921805186625917410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed on social media<\/a> that it had launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Lara had posted several images on Facebook, showing her campaigning throughout the region.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/12\/cfd82b2c-d1fc-424a-b8a0-854c0cafd9e8\/thumbnail\/620x387\/5c8915ada4281d140d5115b821ca0659\/lara-494176958-122126397368729868-291980720923023923-n.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465#\" alt=\"lara-494176958-122126397368729868-291980720923023923-n.jpg \" height=\"387\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/12\/cfd82b2c-d1fc-424a-b8a0-854c0cafd9e8\/thumbnail\/620x387\/5c8915ada4281d140d5115b821ca0659\/lara-494176958-122126397368729868-291980720923023923-n.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/12\/cfd82b2c-d1fc-424a-b8a0-854c0cafd9e8\/thumbnail\/1240x774\/c81edcb099a915d87dddc4d88d847e8d\/lara-494176958-122126397368729868-291980720923023923-n.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Yesenia Lara, Moreno party candidate for mayor of Texistepec, Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Facebook \/ Yesenia Lara Guti\u00e9rrez<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The strength of our youth is the vitality that motivates me to keep walking day by day,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Yesenia-Lara-Guti%C3%A9rrez\/61571896041066\/?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">she wrote<\/a> just hours before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal violence has seen around 480,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006.<\/p>\n<h2>Politicians targeted in Mexico<\/h2>\n<p>Attacks on politicians are common in Mexico, particularly at local level, due to violence linked to cartels. corruption and the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade.<\/p>\n<p>The killing comes two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, a councilmember in Mexico&#8217;s western state of Jalisco, was gunned down in a hospital. Last month, Jose Luis Pereira, a senior member of the Teocaltiche city government, was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/politician-killed-dining-restaurant-jalisco-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shot and killed<\/a><\/span> while dining at a restaurant in Jalisco.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2024, a Mexican congressman who was a member of the ruling coalition was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/congressman-shot-dead-mexico-benito-aguas-atlahua\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shot dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Veracruz.<\/p>\n<p>About two months before that, a mayor was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mayor-alejandro-arcos-murdered-after-taking-office-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">murdered and decapitated<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the southern state of Guerrero. The next month, a former prosecutor and local police official was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-mayor-beheaded-former-prosecutor-arrested\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrested<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in connection with the grisly killing.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mayor-murdered-mexico-after-politician-assassinated-guerrero-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mayor was killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in southern Mexico, less than a week after another politician was assassinated in the same region.<\/p>\n<p>That same month, a local\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-councilwoman-killed-mexico-esmeralda-garzon-backed-claudia-sheinbaum\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">councilwoman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was gunned down as she was leaving her home in Guerrero. Her murder came a few days after the mayor of a town in western Mexico and her bodyguard were\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mayor-killed-mexico-yolanda-sanchez-figueroa-after-claudia-sheinbaum-elected-president\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killed outside of a gym<\/a><\/span>, just hours after Sheinbaum&#8217;s presidential win.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2024, a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mayor-shot-dead-while-at-restaurant-with-his-14-year-old-son-in-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mayor was shot dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0while at a restaurant with his 14-year-old son in Morelia, the capital of western Michoacan state. 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