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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | May 13th, 2025: Mayoral Candidate Gunned Down During Live Stream In Mexico & Starmer Declares UK's 'Open Borders Experiment' A Failure
13 May 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, Mexico is suffering another blood-soaked election season. The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the Mexican state of Veracruz who was gunned down Sunday, along with three of her supporters, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally. We’ll have the details. Later in the show—British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils the U.K.’s most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades, declaring the country’s “open borders experiment” has failed. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDBfor 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Tuesday, the 13th of May. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, Mexico is suffering through another violent election season.
The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the Mexican state of Veracruz who was gunned down on Sunday along with three of her supporters during a live broadcast of a campaign rally. We'll have those details. Later in the show, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils the UK's most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades, declaring that the country's open borders experiment has failed.
Yeah, open borders. Who would have thought that it's a terrible concept? But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll begin today in Mexico, where political violence is once again gripping the nation as voters prepare to head to the polls for local elections on the first of June.
On Sunday, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally, a mayoral candidate from Mexico's governing party in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz was murdered by gunmen, marking the second assassination of a political candidate in the state ahead of the June 1 election.
Candidate Yesenia Lara Gutierrez, a member of the Morena Party of Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, was seen greeting residents in the streets of Texistepec, now flanked by a group of supporters, before some 20 gunshots rang out, sending bystanders scrambling for cover. That's according to a report from CNN.
Gutierrez, her daughter, and three of her supporters were killed in the attack, which also left three others injured. Subsequent reports said that two federal agents were later killed in connection with the incident in another part of Veracruz.
President Scheinbaum confirmed the attack during her morning press conference on Monday, but said they had no information yet on the gunmen or their motive. The governor of Veracruz issued a statement vowing justice, saying, quote, "'No position or office is worth a person's life. We'll find those responsible for this cowardly murder.
All of the state's power will be present in coming days so that the elections are free and democratic.'" Gutierrez became the second mayoral candidate killed in Veracruz during the campaign. Her tragic death comes after candidate Germán Valencia, also a member of Scheinbaum's Morena Party, was killed at his campaign headquarters on the 29th of April.
The governor of Veracruz said that some 57 local candidates had requested security offered by the state and federal government following that first assassination, though it's unclear if Gutierrez had such protection. It's a large election for Veracruz, with voting set to take place across the state's 212 municipalities on the 1st of June.
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