Reuters July 2, 2013 - 02:56 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A mayoral candidate in a northern Mexican municipality was shot dead on Monday, the third attack on a politician in less than a week and the latest incident in the run-up to Mexico's first elections since last year's presidential vote. Ricardo Reyes, a candidate for the leftist Citizen's Movement party, was running for mayor of San Dimas municipality. He was killed around midday in Tayoltita, a rural mining town in the northwestern state of Durango, a party statement said. "The cowardly killer of comrade Reyes is part of an alarming climate of violence and impunity, which seems to be aimed at inspiring terror ... before the...
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