pamela turan, adolfo serna, omar gomez — just some of the more than 130 candidates and politicians killedwere not corruptible. they couldn't be bribed, so they were murdered. jose remedios was 35 and running for mayor of a small town when he was shot dead in broad daylight, after a political rally. he left behind a wife and three children. their grieving has barely begun. jose was murdered little more than six weeks ago. for carmen and the kids, the pain is still raw. his daughter, just four, holds tight a memory. translation: do you know what this blanket means to her? she says it smells of her father, and she will never let it go. carmen visits her husband's grave once a week. attending the memorial prompts a nagging question. what would he do, in her position, to best protect their children? translation: when he was a kid, his father died young, and he always told me it was hard not to have a father figure. and now, i see the story repeating itself with my children. it's hard, it's very hard. but here i am. her tears symbolise a land tortured by so many untimely deaths, lives cut short