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Mexico elections: Armed men stop presidential party leader on campaign trail

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mario Delgado, leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was detained Friday for a few minutes by an armed group on a campaign tour on a highway in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

"We are going from Matamoros to Reynosa. A van stopped us with long weapons, we are standing here, you can tell that Rosa Icela (Mexico's Security Secretary)," Delgado said in a video broadcast live while he was being held.

Delgado was traveling in a van along with Morena Senator Guadalupe Covarrubias . . .

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