On March 1, the presidential, legislative and position renewal campaign begins in thousands of City Councils. The organizations that track this statistic already count a dozen people murdered for their electoral ties.

In the last elections, in June 2021, the consulting firm Etellekt kept track: at least 35 candidates were murdered, and no big changes are expected this time. Those who kill, or rather, have people killed, are politicians or criminals, two figures that are sometimes one, says Adolfo Vladimir.