It is not only a big election year here in the in the United States, but in Mexico as well with voter hitting the polls at the start of next month. 

 in Mexico across several states local candidates running for municipal governments are being killed and other are having their families targeted. 

To hear more, KCBS Radio's news anchor Pat Thurston spoke with Harley Shaiken, Professor Emeritus with the U-C Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.