The mayor of a Mexican metropolis suffering from drug violence has been murdered lower than every week after taking workplace.
Alejandro Arcos was discovered useless on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a metropolis of round 280,000 folks within the southwestern state of Guerrero. He had been mayor for six days.
Evelyn Salgado, the state governor, mentioned town was in mourning over a homicide that “fills us with indignation”. His loss of life got here three days after town authorities’s new secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot useless.
Authorities haven’t launched particulars of the investigation, or suspects. Nevertheless, Guerrero is likely one of the worst-affected states for drug violence and drug cartels have murdered dozens of politicians throughout the nation.
Authorities confirmed Arcos’s homicide after unverified social media pictures confirmed what seemed to be his stays.
Arcos’s social media posts present that he had spent his days in workplace supervising catastrophe reduction efforts following Hurricane John final month, which brought on extreme flooding.
Footage had been posted to his Fb account within the hours earlier than his loss of life of conferences with reduction employees and residents.
Alejandro Moreno, a Mexican senator, mentioned Arcos and Tapia had been “younger and sincere officers who sought progress for his or her group”. He referred to as on federal authorities to take cost of the investigation given Guerrero’s “ungovernability”.
Arcos’s Institutional Revolutionary Occasion referred to as for justice. “Sufficient of violence and impunity! The folks of Guerrero don’t need to dwell in worry,” it mentioned on Twitter/X.
Politicians, notably on the native stage, incessantly fall sufferer to bloodshed linked to corruption and the multibillion-dollar medicine commerce.
Guerrero is likely one of the worst affected states as a consequence of its location on the Pacific coast smuggling routes and Chilpancingo has lengthy been the scene of turf battles between two drug gangs, the Ardillos and the Tlacos.
No less than six candidates for public workplace had been killed within the state within the run-up to Mexico’s 2 June elections.
Greater than 450,000 folks have been murdered and tens of hundreds have gone lacking throughout Mexico because the authorities deployed the military to fight drug trafficking in 2006.
