MEXICO CITY: Drug traffickers have tried to influence political campaigns in Mexico by intimidating and even kidnapping candidates and trying to steer election results, the attorney general said.
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said in remarks released by his office Friday that drug gangs have tried to influence politics in the border states of Baja California and Tamaulipas, the western state of Michoacan, and other parts of the Gulf and Pacific coasts.
"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," he said.
This is significant because illegal drug traffickers are attempting to intimidate political candidates and trying to change elction results. Many candidates have been affected by these traffickers by receiving threats and being kidnapped.
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