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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | May 13th, 2025: Mayoral Candidate Gunned Down During Live Stream In Mexico & Starmer Declares UK's 'Open Borders Experiment' A Failure
Tue, 13 May 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, Mexico is suffering another blood-soaked election season. The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the Mexican state of Veracruz who was gunned down Sunday, along with three of her supporters, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally. We’ll have the details. Later in the show—British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils the U.K.’s most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades, declaring the country’s “open borders experiment” has failed. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDBfor 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is the PDB Afternoon Bulletin host?
Chapter 2: What happened to the mayoral candidate in Veracruz, Mexico?
It's Tuesday, the 13th of May. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, Mexico is suffering through another violent election season.
The latest victim was a mayoral candidate in the Mexican state of Veracruz who was gunned down on Sunday along with three of her supporters during a live broadcast of a campaign rally. We'll have those details. Later in the show, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils the UK's most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades, declaring that the country's open borders experiment has failed.
Yeah, open borders. Who would have thought that it's a terrible concept? But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll begin today in Mexico, where political violence is once again gripping the nation as voters prepare to head to the polls for local elections on the first of June.
Chapter 3: How is political violence impacting Mexico's local elections?
On Sunday, during a live broadcast of a campaign rally, a mayoral candidate from Mexico's governing party in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz was murdered by gunmen, marking the second assassination of a political candidate in the state ahead of the June 1 election.
Chapter 4: What are the details of the assassination of Yesenia Lara Gutierrez?
Candidate Yesenia Lara Gutierrez, a member of the Morena Party of Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, was seen greeting residents in the streets of Texistepec, now flanked by a group of supporters, before some 20 gunshots rang out, sending bystanders scrambling for cover. That's according to a report from CNN.
Gutierrez, her daughter, and three of her supporters were killed in the attack, which also left three others injured. Subsequent reports said that two federal agents were later killed in connection with the incident in another part of Veracruz.
President Scheinbaum confirmed the attack during her morning press conference on Monday, but said they had no information yet on the gunmen or their motive. The governor of Veracruz issued a statement vowing justice, saying, quote, "'No position or office is worth a person's life. We'll find those responsible for this cowardly murder.
Chapter 5: What has been the government response to the Veracruz political murders?
All of the state's power will be present in coming days so that the elections are free and democratic.'" Gutierrez became the second mayoral candidate killed in Veracruz during the campaign. Her tragic death comes after candidate Germán Valencia, also a member of Scheinbaum's Morena Party, was killed at his campaign headquarters on the 29th of April.
The governor of Veracruz said that some 57 local candidates had requested security offered by the state and federal government following that first assassination, though it's unclear if Gutierrez had such protection. It's a large election for Veracruz, with voting set to take place across the state's 212 municipalities on the 1st of June.
Locals described a climate of terror, saying that the violence is so bad that residents are reluctant to publicly voice their support out of fear of retribution. Now, Mexico is no stranger to widespread political violence during election seasons. Last spring's presidential and local elections were the bloodiest in Mexican history.
Chapter 6: How widespread is election-related violence in Mexico?
Outside of the presidential election, there were races then for both houses of Congress, gubernatorial elections in nine of the country's 32 states, and thousands of mayoral races. In total, roughly 20,000 congressional and local positions were up for grabs, making it the largest election in the country's history.
Some 30 candidates were murdered during that 2024 campaign season, while another 11 were kidnapped and nearly 80 candidates faced significant death threats. The violence was not limited to the candidates themselves, with local groups estimating that there were at least 27 other killings of family members, political organizers, and community leaders,
linked to political candidates during the election cycle. The focus for cartels tends to be on local elections, particularly candidates for mayor or the state legislature, where they can more easily exert their influence. In some areas of Mexico, the cartels, as you might suspect, wield almost total control.
While the Mexican government has done more to bolster the security of local candidates over the past year, Gutierrez's death shows just how little control federal authorities still have over their electoral process, particularly in cartel strongholds. One supporter of Gutierrez told NBC News, quote, We can't continue with the insecurity. We're tired of all of this. This is terrorism, end quote.
Well, they're not wrong. All right, coming up next, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveils the UK's most sweeping immigration overhaul in decades. I'll be right back. Hey, Mike Baker here. Now, this July, there's going to be a global summit of what's known as the BRICS nations, and it'll be held in Rio de Janeiro. Have you heard about this?
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the upcoming UK immigration overhaul?
For the higher education sector, the pressure is twofold, a potential new tax on international students and stricter accountability rules requiring 95% to begin their courses and 90% to complete them. Revenue from the tax would be funneled into domestic skills training programs.
Ministers are also moving to reinterpret Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to a family life. The government says the clause has been applied too broadly in immigration cases, and they are now pushing Parliament to vote on a narrower application, a move that could significantly limit family reunification rights.
The humanitarian pathways, meanwhile, remain effectively frozen. No new refugee routes will be created and only a limited pool of UN-recognized refugees will be allowed to apply under existing skilled worker schemes.
Starmer has insisted the moves are grounded in principle, not political pressure, saying, "...I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair, and because it is what I believe in." The language he used was unambiguous. British businesses, Starmer warned, had grown, quote, almost addicted to importing cheap labor rather than training domestic talent.
And unless that pattern changes, he cautioned, the country risks becoming an island of strangers. Look, border policies really shouldn't be that difficult to comprehend. We've said this before on the PDB. If you don't have secure borders, if you don't know who's coming and going from your country, if you have essentially an open border policy, then really, you're not a country.
You're just a spot on the map. Every nation's first responsibility is to its citizens to provide for and safeguard the security of its citizens, the economic and physical security. If you don't have border security and immigration policies that prioritize your own citizens, then, as a nation, you're failing in your primary responsibility. That's not rocket science.
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Chapter 8: What is the BRICS Rio Reset and how might it affect the US dollar?
And that, my friends, is the PDB Afternoon Bulletin for Tuesday, the 13th of May. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to me at pdbatthefirsttv.com. Of course, as you've likely seen on billboards all over town, to listen to the show ad-free, just become a premium member of the President's Daily Brief by visiting pdbpremium.com. I'm Mike Baker, and I'll be back tomorrow.
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