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Huitzilac, Mexico – 14 January 2025
1. Mid of scene where five people were killed in shooting
2. Numbers next to bullet holes
3. Close of candle next to blood stain
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Blanca Delgadillo, mother-in-law of victim of shooting: ++OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"I told him not to participate, there are always problems."
5. Delgadillo walking outside her house
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Blanca Delgadillo, mother-in-law of victim of shooting: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 7 AND 8++
"Three years ago, in the last election, the man who is now in office was also attacked. They shot his whole house twice, but he wasn’t there and they didn’t kill him. But this time they did kill them (local candidates)."
7. Security forces guarding town
8. Wide of Huitzilac Mayor’s Office
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) César Dávila Díaz, mayor of Huitzilac: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 10++
"Well, we have never really experienced an event like this before. This is the first time, but I really don’t think it’s political."
10. Close of Dávila’s hands
11. Wide of scene
12. Banner for campaign
STORYLINE:
Schools and some businesses were closed and few people walked the streets of a town south of Mexico’s capital Tuesday, hours after five people were gunned down.
The victims were killed on the same street where another attack left eight dead just eight months earlier.
Huitzilac is at the center of a restive area in Morelos state with competing criminal organizations and illegal logging.
Those killed were apparently campaigning for local positions managing the community’s collective resources, like the surrounding forest, ahead of an election scheduled for March.
On Monday afternoon, just like every afternoon in recent weeks, four men and one woman from one of the groups competing in the local elections to manage the communal lands and forest were walking door to door campaigning. They were intercepted by gunmen in two vehicles and left dead on Huitzilac’s main street.
“I told him not to participate, there are always problems,” said Blanca Delgadillo, whose son-in-law José Cuevas, a farmer, was among those killed.
Delgadillo, 70, said violence had overtaken the agricultural community in recent years, forcing its 20,000 residents to live in fear.
Mayor César Dávila Díaz, who took office January 1, condemned the attack.
The mayor denied the presence of drug cartels, dismissed the possibility of a political motive and said he didn’t know what the motive was.
On Tuesday morning, traces of blood and five candles were visible on the pavement.
Two hundred members of the National Guard were arriving to support local and state police patrolling the area.
AP video by Martín Silva Rey
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