The mayor of a picturesque town in western Mexico was tragically killed on Monday, according to the regional government.
This somber event occurred just 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as the first woman president of the Latin American country. Officials confirmed that the mayor’s loyal bodyguard also lost his life in the violent attack.
The Michoacán state government expressed profound condemnation of ‘the brutal murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa,’ a statement from the regional interior ministry revealed through a heartfelt post on social media.
The murder of the woman mayor comes after Sheinbaum’s landslide victory injected hope for change in a country riven by rampant gender-based violence.