• LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Feels like there might be some more context that locals know about but isn’t clear in the article

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        8 months ago

        No, like why these two specifically? The article talks about a previous Morena candidate being killed, and one interviewee speculates they killed the National Action Party candidate just to appear like they don’t target one party specifically. But there’s no reporting beyond that. How many other mayoral candidates are there? Are some candidates purportedly aligned with cartels? Was there anything that happened before these killings that they would occur nearly simultaneously?

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          8 months ago

          A record was being broken some time ago for the amount of journalists being killed on a month-to-month basis, and they all just happened to have been criticizing the current government. I wouldn’t put it past them to kill their own people to try and shift blame.