U2, Bloody Sunday

Violence ahead of the elections has already claimed the lives of three candidates, one would-be candidate, and at least a dozen campaign workers or activists.

Candidates have been assassinated in the past, but the threat to block elections is a new phenomenon. [source]

"Spare some cities, I have the impression that we're not going enthusiastically into a civic festival, rather a funeral," says Sergio Aguayo, political science professor at the Colegio de México. [source]

Not only organized crime will make this election period impossible. Groups of teachers and students are protesting in some of the electoral buildings in four states and piles of burnt ballots prove the point that elections are more a false than a democratic right. "They are disgusted with all the political class", Ackerman states. [source]