CULIACAN, Mexico - (AP) -- Two candidates in a local election in the state of Sinaloa, home to Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, have dropped out of the race after a member of their coalition was shot to death, campaign officials announced Friday. Lucas Lizarraga, campaign coordinator for the coalition "Together You Win," which groups the leftist Democratic Revolution Party and Workers Party with the conservative National Action Party, said the candidates for mayor and state congress in the town of Sinaloa de Leyva are...
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