{"id":117613,"date":"2021-04-07T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T03:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117613"},"modified":"2021-04-07T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T03:31:44","slug":"mexican-election-candidate-launches-campaign-from-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117613","title":{"rendered":"Mexican election candidate launches campaign from coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-13.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-13.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CIUDAD JU\u00c1REZ (Mexico), April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Mexican congressional candidate launched his election campaign in a coffin Tuesday to highlight the country\u2019s many thousands of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and cartel-related violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlos Mayorga, a lower house candidate for the Encuentro Solidario party in the northern state of Chihuahua, said he was sending a message to politicians that people were dying \u201cbecause of their indifference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayorga arrived inside a gold-colored casket at a campaign rally on a bridge between the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was accompanied by aides dressed in personal protective equipment and carrying bouquets of flowers to draw attention to Mexico\u2019s Covid-19 death toll of more than 200,000 \u2014 one of the world\u2019s highest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politicians \u201chave remained silent about the high levels of organized crime. They have remained silent about the chaotic Covid situation,\u201d Mayorga said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 300,000 people have been murdered in Mexico since the government deployed the military in the war on drugs in 2006, according to official figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campaign for June midterm elections has brought a wave of political violence which has seen 16 candidates murdered. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIUDAD JU\u00c1REZ (Mexico), April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Mexican congressional candidate launched his election campaign in a coffin Tuesday to highlight the country\u2019s many thousands of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and cartel-related violence. Carlos Mayorga, a lower house candidate for the Encuentro Solidario party in the northern state of Chihuahua, said he was sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}