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Weekly Report - 21 May 2015 (WR-15-20)
MEXICO: Morena murder mars elections
Electoral violence is not unusual in Mexico. More than a dozen candidates have been murdered so far in the campaign for the federal chamber of deputies, state and municipal elections on 7 June. But one murder last week attracted much more attention than all of the others. Enrique Hernández Salcedo, the candidate for mayor of Yurécuaro, a municipality in the western state of Michoacán, was gunned down during a campaign rally late on 14 May. Hernández was a member of the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), the radical left-wing party of twice former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador competing in its first elections. He was also a former leader of a ‘self-defence’ group of vigilantes with a checkered past.
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