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Mexico’s Extreme Election Violence Explained | Insight Crime
Coverage of violence affecting political candidates in Mexico's elections.
Source: Insight Crime | 4 June 2024
Political candidates in criminally strategic states like Chiapas, Guerrero, and Michoacán saw an outburst of violence this election cycle in Mexico, underscoring how organized crime groups and other power brokers try to influence voting to maintain control despite political reconfigurations.
By the time voters elected Claudia Sheinbaum as Mexico’s first female president, election observers recorded 129 political violence events targeting officials during local, state, and federal elections, for which more than 20,000 posts were up for grabs when campaigning started in early September 2023, according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).
