{"id":33164,"date":"2024-05-30T14:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=33164"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:24:58","slug":"politician-fatally-shot-while-running-for-election-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/30\/politician-fatally-shot-while-running-for-election-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician Fatally Shot While Running for Election in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aspiring mayor was killed in Mexico on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks in the Latin American country ahead of elections.<\/p>\n<p>Alfredo Cabrera, a candidate for the mayoral position in Mexico\u2019s Coyuca de Benitez, in the southern state of Guerrero, was shot during a campaign rally.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado condemned the \u201ccowardly crime.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ms Salgado had asked the state prosecutor\u2019s office to bring \u201cthe full weight of the law against the person or persons responsible,\u2019\u2019 she wrote on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said that they started the investigation into the homicide.<\/p>\n<p>They added that the alleged assailant was killed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>At least 20 people running for office have been killed since September, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential, parliamentary and regional elections are due to be held in Mexico on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aspiring mayor was killed in Mexico on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks in the Latin American country ahead of elections. Alfredo Cabrera, a candidate for the mayoral position in Mexico\u2019s Coyuca de Benitez, in the southern state of Guerrero, was shot during a campaign rally. Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado condemned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":33166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33167,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions\/33167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}