Drug Cartels Try to Influence Mexican Elections
January 8th, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Mexico’s attorney general says that the nation’s powerful drug cartels are working to influence and disrupt upcoming national elections through a variety of tactics, up to and including kidnapping candidates, the Washington Post reported Jan. 5.
“We have evidence, complaints from candidates who were kidnapped or intimidated, or who received threats intended to influence the results of an election and the behavior of candidates,” said Mexican AG Eduardo Medina Mora in a rare acknowledgment of the problems facing Mexican democracy.
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