Mexican candidate kicks off campaign from a coffin

Running for congress from a coffin?

Location: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

One of Mexico's congressional candidates staged a funeral

to kick off his election campaign

highlighting deaths from COVID-19 and crime

and a message:

'If I don't deliver, let them bury me alive'

MEXICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE, CARLOS MAYORGA, SAYING:

''I am going to represent a city drenched in blood that today is going to say: 'Enough with politicians who keep silent and thus become accomplices of organised crime'"