Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised on Sunday, Nov. 2, that there would be justice for the brazen murder of a local mayor, Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organized crime who had called on the government to do more to protect him and others.
Manzo, 40, was shot on Nov. 1 while attending a candlelight Day of the Dead festival in the city center of Uruapan, in the violence-plagued western state of Michoacan. Two suspects were arrested, and a third was dead, Mexico's security ministry said.
Sheinbaum called an emergency meeting of her security cabinet on Nov. 2, later condemning Manzo's "vile" assassination in a statement on X.
"We reaffirm our commitment to deploy all the State's efforts to achieve peace and security with zero impunity and full justice," Sheinbaum wrote.
A march was called for Nov. 2 in Michoacan's capital, Morelia, to demand justice for Manzo's death and an end to violence and corruption.
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