Mayoral candidate and 3 supporters killed in Veracruz

A campaigner for politician and 3 of her supporters were murdered connected Sunday during a run lawsuit successful Texistepec, Veracruz, authorities authorities said.

Morena and Green Party mayoral campaigner Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez and her supporters were participating successful a run procession done the streets of Texistepec, a municipality and municipality successful the southbound of Veracruz, erstwhile gunfire broke out. Three different radical were wounded successful the equipped attack.

In a video Lara was unrecorded streaming to her Facebook account, astir 20 gunshots tin beryllium heard ringing out. The paper Reforma reported that the campaigner was greeting “women with children successful their arms” erstwhile the gunfire began.

State Governor Rocío Nahle and the Veracruz Attorney General’s Office (FGE) announced the execution of the mayoral campaigner and 3 different radical connected societal media.

“No bureau oregon presumption is worthy a person’s life. We’re going to apprehension those liable for this cowardly execution of the campaigner and Morena supporters successful Texistepec; 4 radical dormant and 3 wounded. I’ve instructed the @FGE_Veracruz and constabulary not to halt until they find [the culprits],” the Morena enactment politician wrote connected X. 

The FGE said that 3 men were killed successful summation to Lara, who was vying to triumph the mayorship of Texistepec successful an predetermination that volition beryllium held June 1, the aforesaid time that citizens crossed Mexico volition elite judges successful the country’s first-ever judicial elections.

In a station to X and Facebook conscionable earlier midnight Sunday, the Attorney General’s Office said that the 3 wounded radical were receiving aesculapian care. It said it was investigating the crime.

Media reports and the FGE connection bespeak that the onslaught was perpetrated by astatine slightest 2 people. No circumstantial motive for the transgression was instantly disclosed. President Claudia Sheinbaum said connected Monday greeting that she was unaware of the information for the attack.

Lara, 49, was the woman of the precocious Enrique Argüelles, a erstwhile councilor successful Texistepec who was murdered successful 2022. In a station to her Facebook leafage connected Sunday morning, she wrote that “the spot of our young radical is the vitality that motivates maine to support walking time by day.”

The execution of the campaigner came 12 days aft Germán Anuar Valencia, Morena’s mayoral campaigner successful the bluish Veracruz municipality of Coxquihui, was changeable dead.

New mayors volition beryllium elected successful each 212 municipalities of Veracruz connected June 1.

Political unit a large occupation successful Mexico 

Attacks connected politicians and governmental candidates hap with alarming frequence successful Mexico. The bulk of the victims are elected oregon aspiring officials astatine the municipal level, specified arsenic mayors, councilors and mayoral candidates.

Morena mayoral campaigner successful Celaya murdered astatine run event

According to Mexico City-based consultancy steadfast Integralia, determination were 104 “incidents of governmental violence,” including 50 homicides, successful the archetypal 4th of 2025. While inactive high, the 104 incidents represented a 59.2% diminution compared to the archetypal 4th of past year, Integralia said successful a report.

The higher fig of incidents of governmental unit successful the archetypal 3 months of 2024 came earlier Mexicans elected thousands of municipal, authorities and national officials astatine elections connected June 2.

Integralia said that 81.7% of the victims of governmental unit successful the archetypal 4th of this twelvemonth were existent oregon erstwhile municipal officials, oregon radical aspiring to positions astatine the municipal level.

The precocious fig of incidents of governmental unit astatine the municipal level is testament to “the organization fragility of that level of government, peculiarly successful the look of the infiltration efforts of organized crime,” Integralia said.

The consultancy steadfast reported that the cardinal Mexican authorities of Morelos recorded much incidents of governmental unit than immoderate different entity successful the archetypal 4th of 2025, with a full of 17. Veracruz was 2nd with 13 incidents of governmental violence, followed by Oaxaca (12), Puebla (11) and Guerrero (9).

The enactment whose officials and aspiring officials suffered the highest fig of incidents of governmental unit successful the archetypal 4th of the twelvemonth was Morena, which is successful bureau astatine the national level, successful a bulk of Mexican states and successful much than 1,000 municipalities.

Integralia said that the prevalence of attacks against Morena enactment politicians is explained “in part” by the precocious “concentration of positions of fashionable predetermination that Morena occupies.”

With reports from Reforma, Aristegui Noticias, CBS News and El Financiero