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Carlos Manzo was the seventh Michoacán mayor killed since 2021 amid organized crime disputes, with homicides surpassing 860 this year, officials said.
- Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, was shot at close range onstage while inaugurating the Festival of Candles in downtown Uruapan on Saturday, sparking immediate local and national outrage.
- Organized crime disputes over trafficking and extortion routes have driven much of the violence, with Federal authorities attributing Manzo's killing as the seventh mayor killed in Michoacán since Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla took office in 2021.
- Mourners in Uruapan accompanied the mayor's funeral procession on Sunday, while one attacker was killed and two others arrested; Manzo had said, `I don't want to be another name on the list of the executed.`
- President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the killing and vowed there would be `no impunity`, while protesters stormed the Michoacán Government Palace, chanting against the ruling Morena party and calling for resignation.
- Homicide statistics show worsening insecurity, with casualties surpassing 860 this year in Michoacán, which produces more than 2 million tons of avocados on roughly 450,000 acres and supports about 300,000 jobs.
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PAN deputies rejected that the murder of the Mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, Carlos Manzo, is an issue inherited from past administrations and warned that it is President Claudia Sheinbaum who must face up to this event in front of that state, in front of the country and in front of history. Legislators responded to the federal governor, who in the midst of criticisms for the murder of the former federal legislator blamed the war against the drug t…
President Claudia Sheinbaum questioned the authenticity of the call for the march in protest at the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, as well as the situation of violence in Michoacan. “If you want another time we will talk, in the week, about this mobilization to which you are supposedly summoning young people of a generation and let’s see what are the accounts that propose it, which has nothing to do with a legitimate, promoted dem…
León, Gto.- After the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, this week in Michoacán, citizens of León have begun to organize a demonstration in protest of the insecurity and conditions facing Mexican society. Through social networks, various publications and messages invite the population to participate in a march to demand the revocation of the mandate of President Claudia Sheinbaum, as well as to express their dissatisfaction wit…
The march held this Sunday in Morelia, called to demand justice for the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, ended in violence after a group of protesters broke into the Government Palace, causing material damage and riots and among those who led the riots were identified leaders of the PRI and PAN of Michoacán. What began as a peaceful citizen demonstration in demand of justice for the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, ende…
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