Narco cartels target politicians as Mexico's elections near Flashcards
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About 80 candidates have been murdered since campaigning for Mexico’s 2018 elections began in September
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Last year was the country’s deadliest overall in decades, and in most cases the killers remain at large — some statistics put the unsolved rate at 97 percent of Mexico’s staggering murder tally
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journalists, activists and other noncombatants have long been targeted by cartels.
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estimates that about 45 percent of all municipalities in Mexico are controlled by organized crime and that the numbers will only get worse.
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The number of infiltrated municipalities is growing, and state institutions are increasingly in cahoots with criminal networks, but there is neither a strategy to stop this, nor are there enough capable investigators
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In the state of Guerrero, where the largest number of candidates have been killed so far, a desperate bishop took matters into his own hands, meeting cartel leaders in an effort to stop the bloodshed.
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Buscaglia suspects that necessary measures such as party primaries to choose candidates, effective auditing and ensuring an independent judiciary “are unpopular with leading candidates” because that would weaken the power of parties and cartels, alike.
