00:00Local residents placed candlelights and flowers at the site where the late Cotija mayor Yolanda
00:07Sanchez was murdered.
00:09The politician was shot 19 times by gunmen in an ambush outside a gym in the western
00:14Mexican town on June 3.
00:17Sanchez's bodyguard was also shot during the attack.
00:21They died from their wounds at a hospital.
00:24Prosecutors said no arrests had been made, but they suspect the assailants belonged to
00:28the same group that kidnapped Sanchez last year.
01:29Sanchez was kidnapped by a group called Jalisco New Generation Cartel while she was visiting
01:34the neighboring state of Jalisco.
01:36She was released after three days and claimed that the kidnappers had made demands and inflicted
01:41psychological terror on her before her release.
01:45Mexico's June 2 general election was the bloodiest in the country's history, with the assassination
01:50of 39 candidates before the polls.
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