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SAA event in Guerrero, Coyuca de Benitez area, Mexico on Thu 30th May 2024

30th May 2024

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A mayoral candidate has been shot dead at a campaign rally in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state, the latest in a string of attacks ahead of Sunday’s elections.

Alfredo Cabrera was murdered on Wednesday in the town of Coyuca de Benitez. A video published by local media showed a person approaching him at the campaign event, shooting him several times at point-blank range.

Cabrera’s killing adds to a mounting death toll in the run-up to presidential, congressional and local polls on June 2. The government said on Tuesday that at least 22 people running for local office had been murdered since last September.

On Tuesday, a mayoral candidate in the central state of Morelos was murdered while another one was shot and wounded in western Jalisco state, authorities said.

Cabrera belonged to an opposition coalition backing Xochitl Galvez, a centre-right senator and businesswoman with Indigenous roots, who is currently polling second in the presidential race.

Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado condemned the “cowardly” murder, saying on X that she had asked the state prosecutor’s office to bring “the full weight of the law against the person or persons responsible”.

The alleged attacker was killed at the scene, according to the prosecutor’s office.

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