The wave of assassinations of candidates in the upcoming Mexican elections claimed yet another victim June 2, when Miguel Angel Luna, running for Congress in a district just outside Mexico City, was shot dead as gunmen stormed his campaign office. Miguel Angel Luna, a former mayor of Valle de Chalco in the state of México, was running with the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). A candidate for the local town council was also wounded in the attack. (The Guardian, June 3; Milenio, June 2) Accounts offered no motive, but it is assumed that such victims are targeted for not playing ball with the local narco-gangs—or for playing ball with the wrong narco-gang.
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