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Divisiveness in politics
Posted by David Hardy · 18 June 2018 04:35 PM
From CBS News:
"The footage shows Mexican congressional candidate Fernando Puron posing for a selfie with a supporter after a campaign debate last Friday, when a man walks up from behind, raises a gun and fires at the back of his head.
Puron was running on an anti-cartel platform which made him a target in Piedras Negras, which borders Texas.
He is now one of 113 candidates and politicians who have been murdered in Mexico just since last September, when the election cycle started. Fifty relatives have also been killed and 132 politicians, mostly at the local level, have been threatened."
The shooter was probably a supporter of Bernie Sanders