Mayor Murdered In Mexico Weeks After Mayor Of Another Oaxaca Town Was Killed

Police nan confederate Mexican authorities of Oaxaca are investigating nan fatal shooting of nan mayor of San Miguel Amatitlan, nan authorities prosecutor’s agency said Saturday, arsenic information forces launched an cognition to hunt those responsible.

Jose Angel Bravo Martinez died aft being changeable successful an onslaught successful nan Mixteca region, officials said, adding that they were treating nan lawsuit arsenic a high-impact crime and had opened a general investigation. The politician of different Oaxaca municipality was murdered past month.

State investigators and forensic teams were dispatched to nan segment soon aft nan onslaught to process grounds and retrieve nan body, nan prosecutor’s agency said successful a statement, adding that it was coordinating pinch national information officials.

Authorities did not instantly supply further specifications astir a imaginable motive for nan sidesplitting of Bravo, who belonged to a conjugation of guidance parties, including nan PAN (National Action Party).

Violence against section officials remains a interest successful parts of Mexico, wherever organized crime groups often wield influence, peculiarly successful agrarian areas. Mario Hernandez Garcia, nan politician of different Oaxaca town, Santiago Amoltepec, died past period successful an onslaught that besides near 2 different group dead.

At slightest 60 politicians aliases lawmakers died successful targeted killings past year, according to information by nan non-governmental statement Causa en Comun.

The unit comes arsenic Mexico is co-hosting World Cup 2026 alongside nan United States and Canada.