{"id":2258450,"date":"2024-06-03T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-cartel-ridden-mexico-re-elects-leftist-government-candidate-killed-by-hitmen-voter-kidnapped-at-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:46:12","slug":"as-cartel-ridden-mexico-re-elects-leftist-government-candidate-killed-by-hitmen-voter-kidnapped-at-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-cartel-ridden-mexico-re-elects-leftist-government-candidate-killed-by-hitmen-voter-kidnapped-at-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"In Mexico, Amid Cartel Influence, Leftist Government Wins Re-Election, Candidate Assassinated, Voter Abducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-cartel-ridden-mexico-re-elects-leftist-government-candidate-killed-by-hitmen-voter-kidnapped-at-polls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2258450&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the aftermath\u200c of Mexico&#8217;s recent elections, marked by\u200d violence and cartel influence, \u2062the far-left candidate Claudia Sheinbaum emerges victorious, securing nearly 60% of \u200bthe vote. Despite the celebration, incidents like the assassination \u2062of \u2063a \u2064town <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-should-oppose-critical-race-theory-to-save-our-kids-from-left-wing-indoctrination-ag-paxton\/\" title=\"Parents Should Oppose Critical Race Theory to \u2018Save Our Kids\u2019 from Left-Wing Indoctrination: AG Paxton\">council candidate<\/a> and the kidnapping of \u2062a voter \u200bshed light on\u200b the ongoing turmoil and challenges facing \u200dthe nation. Following Mexico&#8217;s turbulent elections, characterized \u2064by violence and cartel interference, left-wing candidate Claudia Sheinbaum triumphs with almost 60% of the vote. Despite the\u200c jubilation, troubling events like the murder of a council candidate and a voter abduction highlight the enduring unrest and\u2064 obstacles confronting\u200c the country.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 3, 2024 at 7:05am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to call Sunday anything less than a tragedy for the violence-ridden country of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In the culmination of a race dominated not only by the scourge of the country\u2019s criminal cartels but the looming threat of the ruling faction turning it into a one-party state, former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was elected to a six-year term to replace outgoing President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum was the chosen candidate of the far-left L\u00f3pez Obrador and his party, Morena.<\/p>\n<p>While it was unclear Monday whether she had the two-thirds supermajority that Morena had hoped for in order to make radical changes to the country\u2019s constitution \u2014 the official results will be determined by a vote count Saturday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/06\/02\/world\/americas\/results-mexico-presidential-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> \u2014 preliminary counts showed her with nearly 60 percent of the vote, compared with 28 percent for the candidate for the opposition coalition, Fuerza y Coraz\u00f3n por M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>The result was met with considerable celebration in Z\u00f3calo, the main square of Mexico City.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Exit polls in Mexico show Claudia Sheinbaum winning the presidency by a wide margin. But the electoral commission has yet to release its customary quick count, a statistical analysis of trends that usually reveal a winner. Either way, the celebration has begun at the Zocalo. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eSvKRLjGlI\">pic.twitter.com\/eSvKRLjGlI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eyder Peralta (@eyderp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eyderp\/status\/1797495668019450265?\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe women have landed in the presidency,\u201d Sheinbaum, who will become the first female president of Mexico, told the crowd after the projected victory, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/mexico-election-results-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cWe are going to govern for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If \u201cgoverning for everyone\u201d means continuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mexico-president-blames-biden-migrant-crisis-border-expectations-created\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s<\/a> legacy beyond the single six-year term that Mexican presidents serve, as Sheinbaum has promised, we got a very ugly look at just what that will entail on Sunday, when election-related brutality continued and reminders of the violence that has long plagued our neighbor to the south were everywhere.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Are Mexican cartels a national security risk for America?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-offers-massive-40000-reward-american-woman-gets-kidnapped-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexican town<\/a> of Cuitzeo, for instance, a candidate for town council was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/mexico-election-results-updates#0000018f-d5ab-dcf2-a3bf-ffbffaea0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed by two hitmen<\/a> mere hours before the polls opened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandidate Israel Delgado Vega was chatting with men near his home when two men on a motorcycle shot him dead, according to local prosecutors,\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than a day later, all that remained at the scene of his death were flowers and candles. Few wanted to speak about his death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that L\u00f3pez Obrador \u201cpromised to reduce violence while in office. He employed a strategy known as \u2018hugs not bullets\u2019 focusing on not confronting cartels and instead addressing social ills fueling cartel recruitment, like poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut under the leader, cartels have expanded control in much of the country and raked in money \u2014 not just from drugs but from extorting legal industries and migrant smuggling. They\u2019ve also fought with more sophisticated tools like bomb-dropping drones and improvised explosive devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a mayoral candidate in the southern Mexican town of Coyuca de Benitez became the 22nd candidate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-violence-mayoral-candidate-brutally-murdered-at-rally-as-candidate-death-count-reaches-22\/\" title=\"Mayoral Candidate Fatally Attacked at Rally, Pushing Candidate Death Toll to 22\">local office killed<\/a> since September, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/mexican-mayoral-candidate-murdered-at-campaign-rally-7214f07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agence France-Presse<\/a>. Some estimates place the estimate even higher; the nongovernmental organization Data Civica said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/election-violence-mayoral-candidate-brutally-murdered-rally-candidate-death-count-reaches-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 30 politicians<\/a> have been killed this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just politicians who were facing violence, either. Also in Chiapas, the same state in which Israel Delgado Vega was killed, a voter was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/mexico-election-results-updates#0000018f-dac6-d9e2-a1af-dbfe57420000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kidnapped<\/a> from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/never-happen-usa-former-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-turned-away-polling-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling station<\/a> by armed men in the town of San Fernando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo armed men burst into a local market where a voting station was set up and kidnapped the man. The man later appeared beaten up in another place, prosecutors said,\u201d the AP reported, adding that the state has been the site of a \u201cbrutal war for control of the lucrative migrant and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-over-100-dead-in-ecuadorian-prison-riot-machetes-chainsaws-guns-grenades\/\" title=\"Report: Over 100 Dead In Ecuadorian Prison Riot: Machetes, Chainsaws, Guns, Grenades\">drug smuggling routes<\/a> along the country\u2019s southern border with Guatemala.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If violence wasn\u2019t already one of the key issues in this year\u2019s election, the AP also noted that a not-insignificant portion of the electorate was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/mexico-election-results-updates#0000018f-db4c-d307-afdf-fb7d0e910000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing in names<\/a> of the country\u2019s more than 110,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-search-missing-mexican-boy-leads-abducted-children-kept-squalor-forced-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing people<\/a> instead of one of the presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong them was Victoria Delgadillo, in Xalapa in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. She founded the \u2018Xalapa Connections\u2019 collective and is looking for her daughter, Yureny Citlali Hern\u00e1ndez, who disappeared in 2011 at the age of 26, and 12 other young women,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch families have criticized the government of President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, who they say has sought to minimize the problem of people going missing amid ongoing violence in Mexico,\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI voted for Yureny, for Pilar, for Carmen and all those many who have been disappeared,\u201d Delgadillo said. \u201cVote for whoever you vote for, we mothers of the disappeared have to work with whoever is left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, Mexico did vote for whoever it voted for, and it voted for six more years of the same far<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justin-trudeau-falling-behind-in-canadian-election-polls\/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau falling behind in Canadian election polls\">-left party<\/a> that has brought us the ineffectual \u201chugs not bullets\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The fruits of this tack could be seen throughout our neighbor to the south on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>If a candidate in America were killed by hitmen and a voter was dragged from the polls by armed thugs, it would be considered a travesty of incalculable proportions. In Mexico, it was just another day that ended in Y.<\/p>\n<p>If the results of the 2024 Mexican elections were bad for America, which has seen the brutal fruit of this tack in dealing with cartel violence and human trafficking, rest assured they\u2019ll be far worse for the country that inflicted this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-us-not-country-embroiled-election-unease-tens-thousands-protesters-assemble-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suicidal electoral wound<\/a> upon itself.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. Will you help us fight? 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, 2024, at 7:05 am, C. Douglas Golden&#8217;s commentary on Mexico&#8217;s Sunday election reflects a tragic day marred by violence. The race, overshadowed by criminal cartels and the ruling faction&#8217;s menacing influence, ended in a somber climax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2258451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mexico.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mexico.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}