Yolanda Sanchez FigueroaMayor of the municipality of Cotija within the state of Michoacán, was killed with 20 photographs this Monday night as he walked alongside a safety guard after leaving a health club. It is a new assault in opposition to a politician, a local weather of violence that marked the weeks main as much as Sunday's parliamentary elections.
In accordance with state authorities, Sánchez Figueroa and his escort have been critically injured and died a couple of minutes later in hospital. The photographs have been fired from a transferring automobile. In accordance with the Michoacán Public Prosecutor's Workplace, the attackers used Assault rifles.
Hours later, a felony cell of the Jalisco New Era Cartel known as “Calaveras” claimed duty for the assault.
The mayor's assassination was condemned by the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, who introduced on his social community account X that state and federal authorities had launched an operation to search out these answerable for the incident.
Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, Mexican mayor, murdered by 20 bullets. Picture El Sol de México“The federal government of Michoacán condemns the homicide of the mayor of Cotija, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa. A safety operation coordinated with federal authorities has been deployed to search out these answerable for the incident,” the discharge mentioned.
Sánchez Figueroa turned the most recent sufferer Violence in opposition to Mexican politiciansIn accordance with native civil group Knowledge Cívica, which displays political violence in Mexico, the state of affairs worsened throughout the electoral course of that ended over the weekend, resulting in the homicide of no less than 33 candidates and greater than 105 assaults.
The mayor was already the sufferer of a felony assault final yr. On September 23, she was kidnapped within the municipality of Zapopan within the western state of Jalisco and located alive a number of days later. On the time, Sánchez Figueroa didn’t have private custody of her.
He @GobMichoacan condemns the homicide of the mayor of Cotija, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa. A safety operation coordinated with federal authorities has been launched to search out these answerable for the incident.
— Segob Michoacan (@SdeGobMich) June 4, 2024
This incident was additionally claimed by the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel.
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Final Sunday, Israel Delgado Vega, the ruling social gathering's candidate for trustee of the municipality of Cuitzeo, additionally in Michoacán, was shot lifeless hours earlier than voting started.
The incident occurred in entrance of his residence within the metropolis of San Juan Benito Juárez, when two males with an assault rifle shot at him from a bike, the same modus operandi to the Sánchez Figueroa case.
By then, the nationwide authorities had acknowledged the killing of 22 candidates, however unbiased teams recorded extra, resembling 34 by the consulting agency Integralia, bringing the quantity to round 250 political killings, together with advisers, officers, relations and collateral victims.