Dozens of Mexican candidates have been killed as cartels seek control

MEXICO CITY —  Noé Ramos was chatting with voters, sharing breakfast with supporters of his mayoral reelection bid in his hometown in northern Mexico.“It’s something very special that people give me a glass of water, that they invite me to have a taco, to have a tamale,” Ramos said in a Facebook livestream last month featuring him at an outdoor table in El Mante in Tamaulipas state. “It motivates me to keep on working to make things better. … I will not defraud them.”An hour later, Ramos was dead. An attacker approached him on the campaign trail and stabbed him…