OSTULA, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen in western Mexico have robbed cameras and cellphones from journalists covering a campaign tour by Mexico's indigenous presidential candidate.
Maria de Jesus Patricio, known as "MariChuy," is being supported by the National Indigenous Congress in her bid to get on the July 1 ballot as an independent candidate.
The group wrote in its Twitter account that reporters following the candidate in a convoy were stopped Sunday by armed assailants in two vehicles on a road in Michoacan state. The group says the assailants threatened and robbed the journalists.
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The incident occurred in an area where vigilante "self-defense" groups sprang up in 2013 to fight the Knights Templar drug cartel.
Patricio is touring the country trying to gather the 866,000 signatures she needs to get on the ballot.