Scores of political candidates have been killed in Mexico in recent years. The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the ...

In Veracruz, Mexico, mayoral candidate Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez from the Morena party was fatally shot during a campaign event, ...

A candidate for mayor and three of her supporters were murdered on Sunday during a campaign event in Texistepec, Veracruz, ...

Yesenia Lara, a Morena party mayoral candidate in Veracruz, Mexico, was shot dead along with three supporters during a ...

Yesenia Lara, the candidate of President Claudia Sheinbaum's Morena party for mayor of Texistepec, was identified by local media as the slain politician.

Gunmen have killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who ...

The wave of murders, kidnappings and gang-related violence ... He was the 112th political hopeful to be killed since September. The deaths reveal the depth of a crisis Mexico has failed to control ...

Instead, most commentators condemned the attack as just another act of political violence. Washington Post columnist Robin Givhan, for example, wrote that "the entire country is enmeshed in this ...