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Weekly Report - 10 May 2018 (WR-18-18)
MEXICO: No containing electoral violence
This is shaping up as one of the most violent electoral campaigns on record in Mexico. Half a dozen politicians from various parties have been murdered in the last week alone. The murder of yet another mayor means that 25 have been killed since President Enrique Peña Nieto came to power in December 2012.
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