Bloodshed mars final day of campaigning for Mexico’s election
- Mayoral candidate assassinated as Mexico’s presidential hopefuls wrap up their campaigns
- Ruling-party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on course to become Mexico’s first woman president
A gunman shot dead an aspiring mayor at a rally Wednesday in southern Mexico, marking a bloody end to campaigning in a country expected to elect its first woman president this weekend.
More than 20 people running for local office have been murdered during what has been a particularly violent election season in the Latin American nation, according to an official count.
The latest victim was Alfredo Cabrera, a mayoral candidate for an opposition coalition who was gunned down in the southern state of Guerrero, causing chaos and panic among people attending the rally.
Barring a major upset, a woman appears almost certain to be elected leader of the world’s most populous Spanish-speaking country when millions of Mexicans vote on Sunday.
“We’re going to make history,” ruling-party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, who is leading in polls, told a cheering crowd at her closing campaign rally in Mexico City’s main square.