Mexico is holding the last day of campaigning before Sunday’s nationwide elections.
A vendor sweeps his flowers shop at the Jamaica market in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Mexico's general election is set for June 2. , but the closing rallies were darkened by attacks on candidates and the country's persistently high homicide rate.
López Obrador has withdrawn funding for police forces and directed it to the quasi-military National Guard, which critics say lacks the professional and investigative abilities needed to fight the drug gangs. Gálvez promised to return the funding to police forces and guarantee them wages of at least $1,200 per month.
While López Obrador has increased the country's minimum wage and increased government benefit programs, he has been unable to significantly reduce the historically high homicide rate, which currently runs at more than 30,000 killings per year nationwide. That gang-fueled violence has also cast a shadow over the campaigns.
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