Mourning a man destined to lead. Rodolfo Torre was gunned down with four ending his dream of leading Mexico’s Tamaulipas state on the US border, and chalking up yet more deaths in the run-up to the polls. Deaths blamed largely on the drug cartels whose battles against each other and the government have killed more than 23,000 in three and a half years. Mexican President Felipe Caldern "Tragedies like this remind us that we share a common enemy and that we mustn't give up the fight."