The personal secretary and an adviser to the mayor of Mexico City were killed by armed men on a motorcycle in a central district of the capital on Tuesday, the authorities announced.
Mayor Clara Brugada holds the second most powerful political post in the country to President Claudia Sheinbaum, and they are allies of the Morena party.
Brugada said in a statement That his secretary Ximena Guzmán and his advisor José Muñoz were killed in the modern district. Brugada described the murders as “direct attack”.
The authorities were investigating the reason and checked images of the surveillance camera to identify the attackers, said Brugada. Photos of the scene showed that police inspecting a car that seemed to have several bullet holes in the windshield.
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“There will be no impunity. Officials will be arrested and will have to face justice,” said Brugada in his declaration.
Sheinbaum deplored the killings and declared during his morning press briefing that there would be no impunity. Sheinbaum was mayor of Mexico City before winning the presidency last year.
In 2020, men armed with Cartel Jalisco New Generation I tried to kill the Sheinbaum police chief in a spectacular ambush on a central boulevard. He was injured and three people were killed.
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Tuesday’s shooting took place only a few hours after the armed men opened fire and killed seven peopleIncluding some minors, in Guanajuato, Mexico.
While Mexican politicians and their collaborators, especially at the local level, are often taken in gangs’ crime, these murders in the streets of the capital are relatively rare.
But politicians are often targeted elsewhere in Mexico.
Last week, a candidate for the town hall and three of her supporters were fell During a campaign event in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. This attack occurred two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, member of the Western State of Mexico, of Jalisco, was shot in a hospital.
In April, Jose Luis Pereira, principal member of the government of the city of Teocaltiche, was Turned and killed By dining in a restaurant in Jalisco.
In December 2024, a member of the Mexican Congress who was a member of the ruling coalition was fell in Veracruz.
About two months before that, a mayor was murdered and decapitated in the southern state of Guerrero. A former prosecutor and local police responsible was later decree As part of the murder.
In June 2024, a The mayor was killed In southern Mexico, less than a week after another politician was murdered in the same region.
This same month, a premises advisor was killed as she left her house in Guerrero. His murder came a few days after the mayor of a city in western Mexico and his bodyguard killed outside a gymnasiumOnly a few hours after Sheinbaum was elected president.
Agency France-Press contributed to this report.