The mayor of a Mexico metropolis tormented by drug violence was murdered lower than every week after taking workplace.
Alejandro Arcos was discovered lifeless on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a metropolis within the southwestern state of Guerrero with a inhabitants of about 280,000. He has been mayor for six days.
Gov. Evelyn Salgado mentioned the town was mourning a homicide that “fills us with outrage.” His loss of life got here three days after the town authorities’s new secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot lifeless.
Authorities haven’t launched particulars concerning the investigation or suspects. Nonetheless, Guerrero is without doubt one of the states worst affected by drug violence, with drug cartels murdering dozens of politicians throughout the nation.
Authorities confirmed Akos’ homicide after unconfirmed social media pictures confirmed his physique.
Akos’ social media posts present he has been overseeing aid efforts whereas in workplace hurricane john Final month, it induced extreme flooding.
Within the hours earlier than his loss of life, pictures of conferences with rescue employees and residents had been posted on his Fb account.
Mexican Senator Alejandro Moreno mentioned Arcos and Tapia had been “younger and sincere officers who search progress for his or her communities.” He known as on federal authorities to analyze on condition that Guerrero was “ungovernable.”
Arcos’s Institutional Revolutionary Get together known as for justice. “Sufficient with violence and impunity! The folks of Guerrero mustn’t stay in worry,” it mentioned on Twitter/X.
Politicians, particularly native ones, usually fall sufferer to bloodshed linked to corruption and the multibillion-dollar drug commerce.
Guerrero is without doubt one of the worst-affected states on account of its location on the Pacific Coast smuggling route, whereas Chilpancingo has lengthy been the scene of a turf battle between two drug gangs, the Adilos and the Tracos.
Within the run-up to Mexico’s June 2 elections, at the least six candidates for public workplace had been killed within the state.
Because the authorities deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, greater than 450,000 folks have been murdered throughout Mexico and tens of 1000’s have disappeared.
