Mayoral candidate, five others killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in Mexico

As usual, López Obrador — who has refused to confront the drug cartels — sought to minimize the problem of violence.

“There are those who maintain that Chiapas is on fire, no, as I've explained, the problem is in this region and we are going to solve it,” the president said during a news briefing in Tapachula, Chiapas.

Mexico's leftist trump, ladies and gentlemen