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LatinNews Daily - 29 May 2015

Mexican campaign most violent in recent history

Development: On 28 May the Mexican authorities revealed that the campaign coordinator for the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Azcapotzalco, one of the 16 boroughs (delegaciones) in Mexico City, had been shot dead by unidentified gunmen.

Significance: Recurring electoral violence has become an uncomfortable theme of this electoral campaign for the federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto. Just the previous day, Lizbeth Rosas, a vice-president of the federal lower chamber of congress, presented figures which she said demonstrated the electoral campaign leading up to the federal legislative, state and municipal elections on 7 June has been the most violent in Mexico’s recent history. Rosas, a member of the left-wing opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and part of the bicameral national security commission, said there had been 43 victims of violence and seven murders during the electoral campaign. Her figures did not include the Azcapotzalco murder.

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