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Investigators and forensic personnel work at the crime scene where remains of Chilpancingo Mayor Alejandro Arcos of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) were found in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state on October 6, 2024. Agence France-Presse
MEXICO CITY — The mayor of a city in southern Mexico has been murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on politicians in the violence-plagued Latin American country.
The killing of Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos “fills us with indignation,” Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado wrote on social media, without providing further details of the circumstances.
Article continues after this advertisementLocal media reported that Arcos was decapitated, but there has been no official confirmation.
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Arcos was elected in June representing an opposition coalition that included the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which denounced his killing as a “cowardly crime” and called for justice.
Article continues after this advertisement“Enough of violence and impunity! The people of Guerrero do not deserve to live in fear,” it said on X.
Article continues after this advertisementHis murder came days after the killing of another city official, Francisco Tapia, according to PRI president Alejandro Moreno.
Article continues after this advertisement“They had been in office for less than a week. Young and honest officials who sought progress for their community,” Moreno said on X.
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Article continues after this advertisementGuerrero, one of Mexico’s poorest states, has endured years of violence linked to turf wars between cartels fighting for control of drug production and trafficking.
Last year, 1,890 murders were recorded in the state, which is home to the beachside resort city of Acapulco, a former playground of the rich and famous now blighted by crime.
Across Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands have gone missing in a spiral of violence since the government deployed the army to combat drug trafficking in 2006.
Politicians, particularly at the local level, frequently fall victim to bloodshed connected to corruption and the multibillion-dollar drugs trade.
Tackling the cartel violence that makes murder and kidnapping a daily occurrence in Mexico is among the major challenges facing Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first woman president.
Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City who was sworn in on October 1, has pledged to stick to her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots.
She is due to unveil her security plan on Tuesday.
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At least 24 politicians were murdered during a particularly violent electoral process leading up to the June election that the key ruling party figure won by a landslideepicwin, according to official figures.
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