The mariachi band had just struck up its first ranchera when Axel grabbed his mother's hand. Come on, mama! the lanky 16-year-old shouted, spinning Daniela beneath a canopy of paper lanterns glowing in the warm night air. The courtyard pulsed with music and laughter as cousins joined in, skirts twirling and shoes scuffing the ground.
A mayor in Mexico's western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities have said. The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodriguez, was gunned down Saturday night in the town's historic centre. He was rushed to a hospital where he later died, according to state prosecutor Carlos Torres Pina.
Because, in the end, my mom is going to go with you to ask them to come and look for me. This was a brief conversation between a hitman and Mrs. Reynalda Pulido, a woman who has located more than 40 bodies and remains in Sinaloa over the past year, trying to find her son Javier Ernesto Velez Pulido, who disappeared on December 8, 2020, a case that is now being targeted by the Culiacan Municipal Police.
Teocaltiche, a municipality in rural Jalisco, is plagued by the violent presence of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), leading to civilian unrest.