A local chosen official was killed in western Mexico, two days after the murder of another mayor further south, local sources reported on Tuesday, June 17.
Martha Laura Mendoza, at the head of a municipality in Michoacán, was killed two days after Lilia García in the state of Oaxaca, killed by five armed men who entered her town hall.
“It is confirmed that we just kill the municipal president (mayor) of Tepalcatepec. A direct attack against her and her husband while leaving her home,” said social network X Guillermo Valencia, a member of Professor PRI.
The elected husband was also killed, according to the publications of two local journalists.
Martha Laura Mendoza was a member of the left party of the left in Mexico. He appeared in his X account as “involved in social struggles, mother, wife and municipal president of Tepalcatepec”.
Dozens of elected officials attacked
The Michoacán (22,000 km2) is the largest world producer in Mexico, the same producing country.
The “New Michoacan family” (“The new Michoacan family”) is one of the eight Latin American posters or gangs placed by Donald Trump in a list of “terrorist” organizations in February.
After the murder Sunday of Lilia García, mayor of San Mateo Piñas, the Prosecutor’s Office studies “five probable mobiles,” the authorities said on Monday during a press conference, citing complaints for theft of 120,000 pesos (around 6,000 dollars) to the detriment of the city, for the falification of the signing of the mayor and for “wood traffic in the region.”
Dozens of elected officials or local officials have been subject to crimes attacks organized in recent years in Mexico.
This violence affected the capital of Mexico, relatively saved a month ago, with the murder of two nearby collaborators of Mayor Clara Brugada in the middle of a public road.
Source: BFM TV
