9 more people killed in attacks on political candidates as pre-election death toll mounts in Mexico

Two attacks against mayoral candidates in Mexico’s June elections have left nine people dead in the southern state of Chiapas, the prosecutor’s office in the organized crime-plagued region said Sunday. The two candidates survived, though both were wounded, in the onslaughts Saturday night and early Sunday in the municipalities of Villa Corzo and Mapastepec, it … Read more