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A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum was not injured.
Municipal president [a] of Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca Killed while on his way to his first meeting as municipal president. [2] Cutberto Porcayo Sánchez MORENA: 3 January 2019 Former president of MORENA in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca. While driving, was attacked by armed assailants. After being shot, he lost control of the vehicle and crashed. [3]
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo [a] (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic who has served as the 66th president of Mexico since 1 October 2024, the first woman to hold the office. [2] [3] [4] She previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023.
The following is a list of assassinations of political candidates, which took place in Mexico during the 2024 Mexican general and local elections. Up to sixty politicians were assassinated during the pre-campaign and campaign periods in Mexico. According to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the total number was six. [1]
Car bombs. Massacres. The slaying of a Roman Catholic priest. A cartel war that has engulfed a major city. A mayor of another large city beheaded after he dared to call for peace. Six weeks after ...
Across Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands have gone missing in a spiral of violence since the government deployed the army to combat drug trafficking in 2006.
2024 Mexican general election: Claudia Sheinbaum is elected as the first female president of Mexico. [24] The ruling party Morena party wins a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies but not in the Senate, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution. [25] 2024 Mexican local elections [26] 5 June:
The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead less than a day after the country elected its first female president, in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates.