The Murder of Dozens of Candidates Is Disrupting Mexico’s 2021 National Legislative, State, and Municipal Elections

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Since the Fall of 2020, Mexico has experienced hundreds of attacks or threats against politicians and candidates, and more than 30 murders of candidates, making the elections of June 6, 2021, some of the most violent in the country’s history. The Chamber of Deputies, 15 of the 32 governors, 30 state legislatures, and 1,900 city councils are on the ballot. Commentators laid the blame on the forces of “organized crime” and “narcos,” who have become ever more influential in politics at all levels of Mexican government.

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