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Judi Lynn

(162,385 posts) Sun Jun 23, 2024, 02:51 AM Jun 2024

A recently elected mayor is shot and killed in southern Mexico

Updated 11:07 AM CDT, June 17, 2024

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recently elected mayor was shot and killed on Monday in southern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero, local authorities said.

Salvador Villalva Flores was on a bus when was he was fatally shot in the head in the town of San Pedro las Playas, according to the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office. That beach town is nearly two hours up the coast from Copala, where Villalva was elected mayor on June 2.

No additional details on the shooting were provided. Guerrero is home to a number of criminal organizations vying for control of territory.

At least 34 political candidates have been killed across Mexico in the run-up to and aftermath of the June 2 election, according to the human rights organization Data Civica.

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I think if Mexico took a more aggressive tact LuvLoogie Jun 2024 #1

LuvLoogie

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1. I think if Mexico took a more aggressive tact

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Sun Jun 23, 2024, 09:03 AM

Jun 2024

in dealing with the cartels they would get support and gain recruitment.

I hope the new president turns it into a mitary operation. They are killing politicians which is an attack on the government and the citizens.

Start with the biggest. Destroy their compounds. Ambush their convoys. They are destroying the forests, too.

The last president kind of coasted.

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