[AP Photo]As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico's bloodiest elections ever. One was from the governing Morena party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the other from the conservative National Action Party. On February 10, a man running for Congress for the Morena party in the sprawling Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec was fatally shot in the street alongside his brother. Those local candidates have become more vulnerable under the security regime of the current president. Because of the violence, at least two candidates from his party have dropped out of the June election race.
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