Candidate in Mexico launches poll campaign from coffin to protest Covid, cartel-related deaths

A congressional candidate in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua launched his election campaign from a coffin to highlight the deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic and cartel-related violence.

A Mexican congressional candidate launched his election campaign in a coffin Tuesday to highlight the country's many thousands of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and cartel-related violence. Carlos Mayorga, a lower house candidate for the Encuentro Solidario party in the northern state of Chihuahua, said he was sending a message to politicians that people were dying "because of their indifference." Mayorga arrived inside a gold-colored casket at a campaign rally on a bridge between the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas.