Posted by DD Republished from Telesur
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"We are concerned about several elements in the Mexican election; the first is the assassination of candidates," OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said. | Photo: @Almagro_OEA2015 |
A spike in assassinations in the run-up to Mexico's regional and national elections is "absolutely unacceptable," the Organization of American States (OAS) warned on Friday, March 16.
"It is an average of one murder of a candidate every four or five days: that is a margin of violence absolutely unacceptable in an electoral process, we are very worried," said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro.
Mexico's next president – as well as numerous senators, federal deputies, governors and mayors – will be contested in July when millions of voters head to the polls.
"We are concerned about several elements in the Mexican election: the first is the assassination of candidates and political leaders in the country," Almagro said during a conference at the Casa America in Madrid.
On Friday morning, news of the murder of Gustavo Martin Gomez Alvarez, a mayoral candidate with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), reached the department of Puebla.
Local media is reporting that Gomez Alvarez was eating breakfast in Metlatoyuca at about 11:30 a.m. when a group of men drove up and shot him six times. The death is being investigated by the Puebla Public Prosecutor's Office as a homicide.
Earlier this month, mayoral candidates Homero Bravo Espino, with the Mexican Democratic Party (PRD), and Aaron Varela Martinez, with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), were both shot dead.
Antonia Jaimes Moctezuma (PRD) and Dulce Nayeli Rebaja Pedro (Institutional Revolutionary Party), both precandidates for local elections in Chilapa, Guerrero, were killed on Feb. 21 and Feb. 25 respectively. Rebaja was also head of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Affairs for the state of
Guerrero.
According to the PRD's estimate, about 12 members of the party have been assassinated since the beginning of the election campaign in September.
Local media report that at least 54 pre-candidates from various parties have been murdered during the same period, while 83 have been assaulted.
Since 2006, more than 100 mayors have been killed, according to a report by the National Association of Mayors.
The OAS plans to send observers to the July elections in an attempt to safeguard electoral transparency.
This is Cjng and EPN making sure they never lose the power. Your either with them or you die. Cjng knows as soon as they lose their president they will be ambushed by all other groups. This election is there survival. And if they win again. It’s over for CDS and pretty much every other Cartel. Because they will be highly inbedded into the government.
ReplyDelete1:07 AMLO has promised peace with immunity, to drug traffickers, I don't know about mass murdering narcissistic and cartels, but in Colombia many milicos, paracos, AUC, polesias, and other gang members of alvaro uribe velez' Death Squads have been talking for years to the reconciliation juntas hoping to be able to go on living GUILT FREE, while senator "El Varito" keeps protesting heroic innocence and to have saved the motherland from socialists and from other drug traffickers because of his own august terrorist drug trafficking presence Marca Diablo.
DeleteIs this to insure business as usual for the angels? How do you fix this? First protect the judges and high level political officers, then lower level, and reporters. Doubt you can cover all at once? Start with one and work your way to others... Would this help? Scary stuff...
ReplyDeleteWell, France decapitated the monarchy in the guillotines.
DeleteItaly beat benito mussolini to death and hung his nalgas from his palace, same fate of Nicolai Ceaucesscu.
Muhammad Khadaffy only got beat up and stabbed to death in the ass, El Chayo "El mas loco" just got beat to death...
--EPN HAS CHOICES, NO???
Heartbreaking and despicable what’s transpiring in Mexico. That’s an alarming rate of candidates being killed by those who which to undermine its democratic government.
ReplyDeleteA hazardous profession for those who undertake change.
Informative article dd
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Democratic government? "Democracy" would be furthest from my mind were I considering words to best describe the embattled country. Mexico has been best described as "the perfect dictatorship," and the United States just loves it.
Delete“Merriam- Webster dictionary of democracy “
Deletea) A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
Clearly a democratic system is displayed here.
It’s the controlling powers of a political system who are trying to maintain order and it’s continuous structure.
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DeleteDictatorship would best be described by the new ruling of China’s presidential powers. Moreover, as indefinite like that of Maos era.
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Democratic Mexico has never existed, just like democratic Russia and democratic republics of North Korea, China or a myriad of Banana republics in Latin America, but don't blame the mexicans, it is the local politicians practicing their local feudalism to keep their grip on power, the murdering must go on until the people cries for the return of El PRI just as it helped to get EPN get to power coupled with election stealing and shit...
DeleteWhat does everyone have to say who says america is no different than mexico?
ReplyDelete1:34 America the US OF A is worser, o sea es lo pior de lo pior.
DeletePor eso estamos como estamos.
Por andar ahi de calientes
Plata o plumo , they will kill, you need to be in collusion with a Cartel or kill kill.
ReplyDeleteIt's because the government from m3xico is super corrupt and if your not someone in their circle then you are out. Kind of how the U.S and how every president is related tov each other somehow. Look it up
ReplyDeleteThey should accept the truth. The Mexican government is corrupt and inept to protect and secure its own country. Murderers walk while freedopm fighters are incarcerated with unlimited term sentences. There is no justice in Mexico. EOS
ReplyDeleteSerafin Zambia gets 5.5 years in prison not bad...he'll be out in 2 for overflowing prisons/good behavior.
ReplyDelete2:52 La Serafina has no drug trafficking charges, he is just in for being a lazy huevon motherfacker, a you tuber instagramero with deviated Facebook postings.
DeletePrincipalmente andaba ahi de Caliente con dineros de su daddy
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ReplyDeleteYup, happens in every country but unlike other countries who just push their opponents aside, Mexico kills them instead. Putin just won again, no surprise there,just another example
DeleteI can't begin to imagine the black hole of disparity the real people of Mexico must feel knowing that at least 6 more years of certain terror and utter hopelessness is most certain. The shear DREAD of day to day life !
ReplyDeleteCorruption, Power, Drugs, Money, inhumanity, Death. It's "Election" time in Mexico... NOT
I’m just waiting for the US bashers to chime in and compare this type of crap to what’s happening in Chicago, Detroit and New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteWow, no one took the bait. I’m completely shocked!!
DeleteWell, what can ya say? The cartels are all powerful, wouldn't surprise me if they one day completely take over Mexico and enslave/exterminate the entire Mexican population in order to further expand their global drug and arms black market operations. Meanwhile the US turns a blind eye to all this. Truly shameful.
ReplyDelete8:18 the US selects MOST of the chosen, honey,
DeleteVery rarely the self promoter or the self starter get ahead for a long time, it is always a change of government in Mexico or the US that overturns established drug traffickers in them.
Please,your one of the ones who falls for the nationalistic views espoused by EPN who blame the US for everything. EVER GET THE FEELING YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED.
DeleteOh i forgot your ever so clever.You should be hating on the PRI not a whole other country.The US has shit to do with Mexico only when Mexico allows it.
Go away your a common garden variety hater
Delete3:02 EPN did not exact billions of dollars from the US for HIS war on drugs all by himself, what is it, 3 billion a year minus middlemen commissions?
DeleteCompare with 30 billion a year for israel, a country with NO OIL or anything worth a duck's fart...
Somebody is getting corrupted big time for peanuts by the US.
Another journalist just murdered in Veracruz today.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/mexico-journalists-face-violence-officials-crime-groups-report/
ReplyDeleteA new report that highlights how corrupt government officials as well as organized crime groups are responsible for the majority of threats and attacks against journalists.
The mortuaries are overwhelmed, with dead bodies, that need to be claimed, that the neighborhood reeks of rooting flesh. America would love to get involved, but the currupted government of Mexico will not allow it, since they are in cullusion with the Cartels. People will continue to die year after year.
ReplyDelete@8:18 "The neighborhood reeks of rotting flesh" This is the Mexico that The World knows. This is no secret as You say. It sure goes to show how ignorant this World can be when it wants to be.
DeleteWhat the hell happened to humanity ?
It's all gone I think and All is lost I fear.
You don't run for feudal warlord without the commoners help, step #1 is getting a palace guard to watch for your and your court's health, or you get to die alone with your hopes...
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