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PAN, PRI, PRD to Denounce Electoral Violence to OAS

By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s “Va por México” alliance, consisting of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), will reportedly go to the Organization of American States (OAS) to denounce the violence in the country surrounding the nation’s elections. The parties claim the drastic uptick in violence before

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Violence Rages On 12 Days Before Mexico’s Elections

By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s already-bloody electoral campaign season saw yet another tragedy on Tuesday, May 25, when Alma Rosa Barragán, the Citizen’s Movement mayoral candidate for Moroleón, Guanajuato, was assassinated during a campaign rally, continuing the electoral violence with just 12 days left until the midterm elections on June 6. Barragán was gunned down in open fire by a group

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