MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate in a northern Mexico border state was killed on Friday, the 16th political hopeful slain ahead of the June 2 national elections that are shaping up to be the country’s most violent on record. Noé Ramos Ferretiz was a candidate of the coalition between the opposition National Action Party and Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which governed Mexico until 2000. He was running for reelection as mayor of the city Ciudad Mante. Prosecutors in the northern border state of Tamaulipas said he was attacked on Friday, but did not give details beyond saying they’re investigating. Local media reported he had been stabbed and posted photos showing a bloodied body lying on a sidewalk. Tamaulipas has long been riven by drug cartel turf wars. Ciudad Mante is located in the southern part of the state, relatively far from border cities like Reynosa and Matamoros. “We will not allow violence to decide these elections,” PRI party leader Alejandro Moreno wrote on social media following the news of Ramos’ killing. The killing was the latest in the increasingly bloody runup to Mexico’s June elections. Ramos is at least the 16th candidate or aspirant killed since the start of 2024 — and expressions of regret have become routine. In early April, mayoral candidate Bertha Gaytán was gunned down, hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. Gaytán was fatally shot on a street in a town outside the city of Celaya, in the north-central state of Guanajuato. She had just launched her campaign for Celaya mayor. Mexico’s drug cartels have often focused assassination attempts on mayors and mayoral candidates, in a bid to control local police or extort money from municipal governments. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged in early April that drug cartels often seek to determine who will serve as mayor — either by running their own candidate or eliminating potential rivals. “They make an agreement and say, ‘this person is going to be mayor; we don’t want anyone else to register to run,’ and anybody who does, well, they know” what to expect, he said. The recent slayings have prompted the government to provide bodyguards for about 250 candidates, but those running for municipal positions — while the most endangered — are the last in line for security. Violence against politicians is widespread in Mexico. In early April, the mayor of Churumuco, a town in the neighboring state of Michoacán, was shot to death at a taco restaurant in the state capital, Morelia. In late February in another town in Michoacán, two mayoral hopefuls were shot to death within hours of each other. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. © 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) One candidate was killed Friday in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas. Noé Ramos Ferretiz was running for a coalition of the opposition National Action Party and Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had governed Mexico until 2000. He was running for reelection as mayor of the city of Ciudad Mante. Another mayoral candidate in the southern state of Oaxaca was found dead a day after he was reported missing. Alberto García was running for mayor of the Oaxaca town of San José Independencia. Oaxaca state prosecutors said García was found dead, apparently beaten to death, on an island in a reservoir near the town. In the past, drug gangs have been active in the area. Prosecutors in Tamaulipas said Ramos Ferretiz was attacked on Friday, but did not give details beyond saying they’re investigating. “We will not allow violence to decide these elections,” PRI party leader Alejandro Moreno wrote on social media, where he confirmed the “cowardly assassination” of Ramos Ferretiz. In Oaxaca, the state electoral board condemned the death of García, who went missing along with his wife — the current mayor of San José Independencia — earlier this week. The wife was found alive. The electoral board called García’s death a “killing,” and said such crimes “should not occur during elections.” The recent slayings have prompted the government to provide bodyguards for about 250 candidates, but those running for municipal positions — while the most endangered — are the last in line for security. In late February in another town in Michoacán, two mayoral hopefuls were shot to death within hours of each other. Print MEXICO CITY — Noé Ramos was chatting with voters sharing breakfast with supporters of his mayoral reelection bid in his hometown in northern Mexico “It’s something very special that people give me a glass of water to have a tamale,” Ramos said in a Facebook livestream last month featuring him at an outdoor table in El Mante in Tamaulipas state “It motivates me to keep on working to make things better An attacker approached him on the campaign trail and stabbed him multiple times a mayoral candidate in the southern state of Oaxaca was found dead has led to one of the bloodiest election cycles of recent times — and one in which voters say they are most worried about public safety A person holds a sign that reads “We are all the same Mexico,” at an opposition rally in Mexico City called to encourage voting ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday (Ginnette Riquelme / Associated Press) On Wednesday the last official day of the Mexican campaign another mayoral candidate was killed — in the western state of Guerrero an opposition hopeful in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez was shot dead at his closing campaign rally Video circulating online showed a smiling Cabrera greeting supporters as a hand holding a pistol appears at the back of his head What sound like repeated shots are heard among screams from the crowd as the video loses focus Authorities did not immediately verify the authenticity of the video but the governor’s office confirmed the candidate’s slaying Integralia counted 560 victims of political violence as of May 1 — compared with 389 victims during the 2017-18 campaign and 299 in the 2020-21 midterms. It specified 316 attacks or threats against candidates as of an updated report May 28. The violence this year, as in other recent election cycles, has not targeted big-name candidates for the presidency, gubernatorial posts or other high-profile positions. Rather, those seeking municipal offices are in the crossfire. World & Nation Soldiers and civilians have been killed in separate incidents in recent months involving ‘narco mines’ planted in western Mexico. “It’s the Tip O’Neill phenomenon: All politics are local,” said David Shirk, a political scientist at the University of San Diego, referring to the late congressional leader from Massachusetts. “Mayors and mayoral candidates are essentially under siege because they are a critical point of influence and protection for criminal actors.” Gangs seek to finance their own nominees — and then strong-arm or eliminate opponents. Crooked mayors can deliver corrupt cops and other benefits to criminals seeking dominion over smuggling routes, extortion targets, municipal budgets and other opportunities in their territories, or plazas. Local politicians can be more vulnerable to cartel pressure than governors and other high-ranking lawmakers. “Organized crime needs some kind of understanding with the authorities,” said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a Mexican political analyst. “That may be a kind of negotiation that can be friendly, or skirts legality, or involves bribes and collusion — or it can be violent, with threats, extortion or direct aggression.” And buying politicians is far more certain than working through the democratic process. “Criminal organizations need guarantees,” said Bravo Regidor. “Uncertainty doesn’t guarantee that the winner will be someone who agrees with the deals they have made.” immigrants who’ve saved to retire there are reevaluating ties to home — and whether returning is worth the risk being on a gang payroll is no assurance of longevity Rival factions may come calling in a country where organized crime is highly fragmented “The real dilemma that a lot of candidates and officials face is this: If they are in the pocket of one criminal group will they draw fire from another?” said Shirk who heads the Justice in Mexico program at the University of San Diego is protection: Hopefuls for local posts seldom have the bodyguards that accompany higher-level candidates Police guard the City Hall in Maravatio in the Mexican state of Michoacan in February after two mayoral hopefuls were gunned down within hours of each other (Fernando Llano / Associated Press) The violence has prompted the Mexican military to bolster security dispatching more than 3,450 troops tasked with protecting some 554 aspirants with the largest deployments for presidential and gubernatorial office-seekers there is no federal escort for most candidates who often seek out protection from state and local police forces “Political violence is out of control and there is no real possibility that state or federal authorities can protect those who seek help,” wrote columnist Raymundo Riva Palacio in Mexico’s El Financiero newspaper. “And the form in which these cartels have been empowered, with the help of some politicians … leaves everyone exposed.” Sons of Mexico’s ‘El Chapo’ Guzman release a letter denying they produce fentanyl or feed cartel victims to tigers On the morning of April 1, Bertha Gisela Gaytán outlined how, if elected mayor of her home city of Celaya, she would target ever-mounting violence. Then she took to the streets of the industrial hub with supporters. It was the first day of her campaign. A hit squad lurked. At least one assailant opened fire at point-blank range, according to police and witness comments to the media. The killers drove off on a pair of motorcycles. Images of Gaytán’s body lying face down on the street with blood flowing from her head were soon online. Gaytán, a 47-year-old lawyer, had sought protection from federal authorities but had yet to receive it. “We had hopes that she would make a difference because she said she was going to combat the narcos,” said María Celorio, 32, a resident of Celaya — which, like much of the central state of Guanajuato, has become an organized-crime battleground, registering some of the country’s highest homicide rates. “Instead, they killed her.” Mexico election: The two women frontrunners in the race for president both invoke gender and a cracking glass ceiling Federal security was finally forthcoming for Gaytán — at her funeral which featured phalanxes of troops guarding Celaya’s cathedral a death provoked by killers who believe they dominate society,” eulogized Father César Corres Cadavieco “By cowardly criminals capable of finishing off a life that is an inconvenience to their own interests.” Relatives of mayoral candidate Bertha Gisela Gaytán mourn during her funeral in Celaya (Mario Armas / Getty Images) Gaytán was a member of the ruling leftist Morena party of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — as were 10 of the candidates slain so far in the electoral season But analysts said that may just reflect Morena’s domination of Mexican politics not a targeting of its candidates for ideological motives Campaign violence tends to be concentrated in states such as Guanajuato, Guerrero, Tamaulipas and Michoacán, where cartels hold sway across vast swaths of territory. A study published in Science estimated that Mexican cartels recruit about 360 workers each week to replace those lost to violence or incarceration. In the Michoacán city of Maravatío on Feb. 26, gunmen killed two mayoral candidates — from opposing political parties — seven hours apart. Both were shot in their vehicles. Authorities blamed organized crime but never clarified if the slayings were connected. A sharp rise in violence has battered the southern state of Chiapas in recent months, killing scores and forcing hundreds from their homes. Mexico’s two major criminal syndicates — the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel — are at war in a conflict to secure drug- and migrant-smuggling corridors from neighboring Guatemala, across jungles, rivers and mountains. A series of attacks on mayoral candidates and their entourages in Chiapas this month have left at least 16 dead, including Lucero Esmeralda López Maza, 28, mayoral hopeful in the municipality of La Concordia, along with her sister. Three other mayoral aspirants from towns across Chiapas were injured in three other attacks, officials said. A member of the Mexican National Guard stands at the perimeter of a crime scene where a passenger was shot dead inside a bus in Celaya, Mexico, in February. As Mexico’s June 2 presidential election approaches, the national debate about security policy rages. (Fernando Llano / Associated Press) On May 12, a total of 11 people, mostly from one family, were massacred in the town of Chicomuselo, some 20 miles from the Guatemala border. Mexican President President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, shown during his daily news conference, rejects critics’ contention that his policies worsened cartel problems in parts of the country. (Luis Barron / Getty Images) Chiapas’ Catholic bishops have declared that “there are no conditions for elections to take place” in much of the state. Many terrified office-seekers across Chiapas have dropped out. Many candidates and local party officials in Chiapas and Tamaulipas that The Times reached out to did not respond to requests for comment or said they did not want to discuss the issue. On a recent visit to Chiapas, López Obrador denied that the state was “in flames.” Some have blamed the outgoing president’s policies for an expansion in gang control in parts of the country. But he rejects allegations that his “hugs not bullets” approach — avoiding clashes with cartels in favor of funding social programs providing alternatives beyond a life in crime for impoverished youth — has exacerbated violence. Even when authorities make arrests — which analysts say is all too rare — law enforcement actions can leave more questions than answers This month, the chief prosecutor in Guanajuato state said seven suspects had been arrested in Gaytán’s slaying. But authorities clarified neither the motive nor who orchestrated the killing. Prosecutors in the cartel-dominated border area of Tamaulipas — widely considered a “narco state” — announced the arrest of a suspect in the stabbing death of Ramos, the mayor seeking reelection in El Mante. Authorities portrayed the suspect as a lone-wolf drug user and former butcher with a criminal record who believed himself to be “an avenger of God,” according to official statements and media accounts. The son of slain presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio asked that his killer be pardoned, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador refused. That didn’t explain how the assailant, reportedly requesting a selfie with the candidate, managed to get close enough to stab Ramos, whose campaign had hired private bodyguards — in part because of a public history of threats against Ramos going back to at least 2022. A file photo shows Noé Ramos with his wife, Sheyla Palacios, in El Mante, Mexico. Ramos, who was running for reelection as mayor, was stabbed to death April 19. Palacios is now running in his place. (Sheyla Palacios campaign) “I’m scared because we don’t know why this happened,” Ramos’ widow, Sheyla Palacios, told a Tamaulipas TV station about her husband’s assassination. Palacios has taken Ramos’ spot on the ballot, running for mayor of the city of 70,000. Now state police are stationed outside Palacios’ home with security officials inside, she has said. She campaigns at choreographed events, escorted by armed guards. Voters understand the need for extreme caution, even at the cost of sacrificing intimacy with constituents, Palacios says. “The people on the streets say they are with me, they hug me,” she said in the TV interview. “They give me words of encouragement, they pray for me.” Times special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal contributed to this report. Foreign correspondent Patrick J. McDonnell is the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau chief and previously headed Times bureaus in Beirut, Buenos Aires and Baghdad. A native of the Bronx, McDonnell is a graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard. 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