As quickly as the primary feminine president was elected… Mexico’s present mayor was assassinated

In Mexico, the ‘nation of machos’, a feminine mayor was murdered. This occurred lower than a day after the primary feminine president in 200 years of constitutional historical past.

In keeping with a number of international media, together with the BBC, on the 4th (native time), Mayor Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa and her bodyguard have been shot and killed by a gunman in Cotija, Michoacán the day earlier than. Mayor Figueroa is the primary feminine mayor within the area, taking workplace in September 2021 as the top of administration of Cotija, a metropolis with a inhabitants of about 15,000.

He has maintained a robust response to the brutal actions of the cartel, and due to this, he has continually obtained loss of life threats. Final September, whereas procuring along with his household in close by Zapopan, Jalisco, he was kidnapped by armed males and launched three days later. After that, authorities strengthened private safety for Mayor Figueroa.

The identification of the abductors was not but recognized on the time. Nonetheless, native media recognized gang members belonging to the infamous Mexican drug trafficking group ‘Jalisco New Era Cartel’ (CJNG) as the principle suspect. There’s hypothesis that CJNG may very well be behind this case as properly. It’s because a bunch known as Calaveras, which receives orders from the CJNG, reportedly left a message on-line saying, “We assassinated Mayor Figueroa.”

On the similar time, this assassination occurred lower than 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum (61) was elected as the primary feminine president in Mexico. In Mexico, round 20 candidates and marketing campaign employees died earlier than and after polling day, and the BBC assessed that “the Mexican presidential election, wherein two feminine candidates have been working, was overshadowed by widespread violence towards politicians. “

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