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That title is so confusing. Why are they connecting the shooting of this mayor with the election of the president?
To increase the number of people who would click on the article to read it.
This is the right answer. There really isn't a connection, but it works for clicks and on people who want to project a specific narrative onto the event.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/1/mayoral-candidate-murdered-in-mexico-two-days-before-vote
I guess the count goes from 37 to 38, but there have been something like 800 assassination attempts on candidates this election cycle in Mexico.
I read your other comment too - absolutely a lot of little "shame if something were to happen there" events going on lately. So the reporters gotta keep the clicks coming, since the murder of a mayor apparently isn't enough anymore.
Also, it would be a shame if something were to happen to all those judges and jurors for Donald Trump's various trials as well... And the people who count and verify elections too. And anyone else to be named at a future date for any reason whatsoever. Or possibly (if anyone remembers the Four Seasons... Landscaping & Gardening incident) others who happen to have a similar enough name. Or whatever, bc it's a Tuesday.
Somewhere "above" (below?) us all, the rich are fighting, and the common man (& woman, & child, etc.) are getting caught up in it all.
She was shot 19 times.
I don't consider it conspiratorial to say, given that it happened within hours the first woman was elected President, that it was more likely than not sending a message of ignorance bucking the idea of women leading, or considering it was cited as likely being a cartel, a message of "don't think we won't kill you if you act against our business interests just because you're a woman." which considering gender roles and mores are still much more traditional than in the US, might have been a message they felt was needed.
It may not be connected , but if it isn't, it's a pretty big coincidence.
Bruh its a Tuesday.
Double mayor days are Fridays: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-mayoral-candidate-killed-violence-elections-886c497b221087126014f7b113fd54a2
Or was it the other mayor (also a Friday): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/1/mayoral-candidate-murdered-in-mexico-two-days-before-vote
Or the other other Tuesday mayoral double murder (1 attempted murder): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-election-mayoral-candidate-murdered-another-wounded/
Or the other Monday woman candidate: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-mayoral-candidate-gisela-gaytan-was-murdered-first-day-campaign-rcna146191
That's not even close to all of them, and that's only from the most recent couple months.
It is conspiratorial to ignore the fact that Mexico is experiencing and has been experiencing a continuous attack on their rule of law, especially at the mayoral level.
Mayor is like, the most hazardous job title in Mexico and has been for quite quite a while.
Edit: In this campaign season alone, 37 mayoral candidates have been assassinated in Mexico. There have been almost 800 attempted assassinations.
Hey these cartels sound like a nice workplace, they are true gender equality proponents :)
There is a reason they normally call it "Cotija de la Paz" but usually most of the time they call it "Cotija de la Paz Paz Paz Paz Paz Paz Paz...!"
I get your point but drug cartels love her political party and they are VERY happy that she won the presidency.
Our current president that is the "spiritual" leader of the party has the mantra of "abrazos, no balazos" (hugs, not shots) towards drug cartels.
Honestly it's a mess, as soon you start a business they come and start demanding money like it's their tax.
But people seems that they love it since they voted for her /shrugs
Tolerate is the operative word here, not love
So many mayors have been shot and killed in Mexico over the last year but suddenly all of this is connected to the new female president elect? Who makes up these connections and why do they call themselves journalists
This current govt in Mexico is a Narco-government. The newly elected President, Claudia Sheinbaum, who's nickname is La Calaca(literally 💀). They are connected because it's the same party.
The mayor that was assassinated, was kidnapped last year and murdered yesterday, is opposition party.
I'm not saying sheinbaum gave the order, but the current and next government is complicit af. They certainly do nothing to stop the narco. At the very least, they turn a blind sure
What should the government do to stop narcos?
Throw them in a volcano.....
But srsly, maybe kinda what Germany did post WWII. Much of the youth glorifies these subhuman pieces of shit. Educating the public is #1.
After watching Narcos on Netflix and seeing how bad it is in Mexico, I cant even imagine a practical solution. The narco seeps thru all of society.
I thin there should be a proper study and maybe proposal to Legalize and lightly-regulate class-A drugs so the Cartel loses their main revenue stream, black market drugs.
I am pulling this out my butt, but Im betting the main source of capital in the cartel's economy is wealthy people buying drugs. Poor people too, but Im betting the wealthy addicts with jobs and clean records contribute more.
If we rerouted those funds to actual tax-revenue-generating jobs the Cartel mightlosee somepowera and our economy wouldn't be leaking so much money to the illegal drug trade.
Skull is Calava in Spanish. Maybe it was just a typo.
Also for people like me who took too long to figure out what that emoji "literally" means.
No it isn't. Calava isn't a word, you probably meant calavera.
A calaca (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈlaka], a colloquial Mexican Spanish name for skeleton) is a figure of a skull or skeleton (usually human) commonly used for decoration during the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, although they are made all year round.
And you can say it in fun ways like: " La calaca " Or just get crazy: Laca laca laca laca laca....
Lacaca calaca
It's a kinda slang for skeleton
Hmm OK, thanks for the info. I have trouble because I learned from school and working in kitchens. I speak a weird form of spanish.
So none at all got it
She was just elected and did not even solve the deeply ingrained issue of cartel violence within a few hours. Women, amiright?
She was taken hostage before all this happened:
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