2024-06-08 04:00:45
A mayor of the Mexican state of Michoacán (west), who was kidnapped final September, was murdered this Monday, sooner or later after the election of leftist Claudia Sheinbaum as president of Mexico, the regional authorities reported.
The federal government secretariat of that turbulent district condemned on the X community “the homicide of the municipal president of Cotija, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa”, including that it deployed a safety operation to seize these accountable.
Sánchez turned mayor within the 2021 elections underneath the banner of the conservative Nationwide Motion Social gathering (PAN).
Native media report that the politician was attacked with bullets on a public highway. To this point the authorities haven’t offered particulars.
Sánchez had already been the sufferer of a kidnapping on September 23, 2023 in a suburb of Guadalajara, within the state of Jalisco, neighboring Michoacán, when he was leaving a shopping mall within the firm of two girls.
Three days later the federal authorities introduced that she had been discovered alive.
In response to native media, the plagiarists belonged to the highly effective Jalisco New Technology Cartel (CJNG), who threatened the mayor for opposing the felony group taking management of the police in her municipality.
The homicide happens sooner or later after Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old scientist, achieved an amazing victory with greater than 30 factors forward of the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, of the PAN.
Michoacán, a state acknowledged for its vacationer locations and a thriving agro-export business, can be probably the most violent within the nation, because of the exercise of felony teams devoted to extortion and drug trafficking.
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