Indigenous candidate wants to heal Mexico's 'cancer' Maria de Jesus Patricio, a 53-year-old indigenous traditional healer, is planning to run in Mexico’s 2018 presidential elections to try and heal the country of the "cancer" that "is still growing." She has been nominated to run by the National Indigenous Council and the Zapatistas, a former guerrilla army that is now a leftist political movement. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES