WowRTLY After 8 PM More on Saturday, the young Assassin, wearing a white hoodie pulled over his head, came out of the hotel meters of the Plaza in the Plaza in the Plaza in the Plaza in the center of the capital of the country.
His target: Mayor Carlos Manze, who had risen to national prominence by confronting heavily armed criminal gangs who organized violence in his district in a powerful area of the field.
The Assassin, carrying a 9-mm beretta handgun, began weaving through the crowds in the Plaza, which included families with children, gathered for a candlelight ceremony, part of the local day of the dead celebrations.
Surveillance video released by local authorities and a timeline of events showed the execution of the killings nearby, driven by MANZO, who was present And dressed in white and accompanied by his wife and two children when he greeted people in the crowd.
When the killer came to Manzo, he fired seven times before the Mayor’s bodyguards – assigned by the Federal Government – responded, too late, with lethal force.
Manzo’s killing has sparked a spasm of anger that has now ignited protests in the fertile state of Michoacan, which has seen lashings and avocados on Canadian shelves. Uruapan, with a population of 400,000, is the second largest city.
Michoacan State Actorney Carlos Torres Piña, who led the criminal investigation, identified the woman who died early Thursday morning as the Municipality of Thako, Michorter, who lives about 40 kilometers north of Urupan.
Torres Piña said that Ubaldo Vidales was addicted to methamphetamines and was not at his home for about a week before the murder.
He said the Vidales of Ubaldo were high on methamphetamines and thc at the time of the incident. An autopsy determined his weapon was used to kill three people in two separate incidents last month.
Manzo was the seventh Mayor to be assassinated in the State since 2022 and the second high profile assassination in a span of two weeks. Bernardo Bravo, a prominent Michoacan farmer and agricultural organization who spoke out against the robbery of producers by criminal groups, was killed on Oct. 20.
The killing of Manzo struck a raw nerve in the people of Michoacan, tired of violence and misbehavior of their violence, and that anger is now felt 400 kilometers to the east, in Mexico City.
Francisco Garcia Davis, Founder of Quadratin Mexico, a news agency founded in Michoacan with the presence of 22 people from Mexico (and New Jersey), SAHe admits that he has never seen such a large number of local people who were killed in political killings.
“There have been protests in the streets, in public places, in people’s organizations – institutions and organizations that have not shown the following events,” said Garcia Davish in a phone call with CBC news from Morelia, the capital of the state of Michoacan.
He called it “social rebellion.”
The level of violence that showed him – in which State and municipal buildings were partially razed and burned – prompted Manzo’s widow to release a video statement on social media this week that found peace.
“We will ask for justice for Carlos, but I call on the citizens who are protesting … who are at risk, I am asking you, let’s do this in a peaceful way,” said Grecia Quiroz, “said Grecia Quiroz, who is taking the place of her mayor of Uruapan.
‘The Faithful, Courageous Mayor’
Stability in Michoacan was long ago destroyed by the waves of state-made operations launched by the Federal Government and aimed at destroying the cartels established in the region, experts say.
The results left the combined armed groups fighting in the field in a change of alliances with the country’s powerGood crime gang, jalisco The New Generation (CJNG), which continues to control rockets orbiting most of the agricultural and transportation sectors RThe effects of cocaine shipping across the Pacific coast to Colombia and Ecuador.
Alberto Islas, founder of the Mexico City- and Miami-based consulting firm Emthole Solutions, said the groups are also fighting the control of municipal officials.
“At the end of the day, there is a lack of government because everyone is getting bribes,” he said.
Manzo was different, said David Laedeto, a security consultant in Mexico City.
“Many municipal governments, mayors, submit to the power of crime. Carlos Manzo was different: an honest, courageous mayor who decided to face,” said organized crime groups, “said Saededo.
Manzo’s ‘Movimiento del Sombrero’
Federal LawMaker Guadalupe Aracalupe Arioza Arias, who represents the state of Urupan in the Chamber of Mexico, tried to look for her husband, tried to answer its Mayor in the darkness of Saturday’s murder.
Mendoza Ariaas said he was “shoulder to shoulder” with Manzo while walking through the plaza shortly before he heard gunshots.
“I was scared, I ran … I turned around and saw that he had fallen,” said in an interview with CBC news from Urupan.
“I moved to a place far away from danger, and I began to pray, ‘Please, my God, don’t take him, you can’t take our leader … this is a social problem.'”
Mendoza arias saId Manzo’s death will not stop him from following his legacy and working.
“In this world, we will all die sooner or later. We are not forever. No one escapes death. If I am going to die, I will die, leaving a difference, leaving a difference, that Carlos Manzo left his legacy,” he said.
Mendoza Ariaas said he looked at Manzo’s face during his week and said he could see a small smile on his face.
“It was as if he was saying, ‘I left my history, I know this will continue. My path has ended here, now it’s time to move,'” he said.
“Now we have to put an end to insecurity, corruption, all the garbage we have in this country.”
Both were part of the so-called “El Movimiento del SOMBRORO,” or the hat movement, named after the cowboy hat Manzoon often wears. The Movement, which advocates serious crime, no corruption and family and family values, also has two municipal seats in Urupan.
Manzo was seen by many as a potential ruler of Michoacan. Mendoza Arias said he has his eye on the Presidential bid – an important challenge to A country where established parties dominate the electoral battle for the national palace.
Mendoza Arias, a former member of Mexico’s Green Party, ran for and lost to Manzo when he took Fulekela for the national election as the candidate of the National Regeneration Movement Party (Morena).
Morna currently holds the Office of the President, as well as several state houses and state champions – including Michoacan.
In 2024, Manzo broke with Morena and won Urupan as an independent. Mendoza Ariaas, who at that time appeared as a political partner, took the humanitarian seat from Morena and now lives as an independent in the lower house.
He took out the top leader of the cartel
Manzo has employed aggressive tactics in the war with gangs in his city and has authorized municipal police to use lethal force in their operations, Saededo said.
“What Carlos Manze encouraged was to kill Narco dealers, to kill organized crime groups,” said Saededo.
“For me, his killing…
In August, Manzo police arrested rEné Belmonte Aguilar, nicknamed “El Rino,” a senior member of the CJNG in Uruapan – Operation Manzo spread on his Facebook page to more than a million followers.
Saededo said that CJNG may have been behind the killing as an act of revenge. Or he may have been killed by a rival gang to ‘warm up the plaza,’ drawing state and federal forces to bring down the cjng, he said.
No repeats of ‘narco wars’
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government is developing a plan to bring “peace and justice” to Michoacan. However, Sheinbaum said he would not praise the type of “Narco War” used by his predecessors between 2006 and 2018, which left tens of thousands dead and missing, combatants and innocents alike.
“It doesn’t work,” Sheinbaum said.
Former President Felipe Calderon launched the opening salvo in the Narco war in 2006. His first target was Michoacan. It eventually led to the destruction of the dominant Cartel in the Government known as the Michoacan family, Saededo said.
After some studentNatural Fighting Between Splinter Groups, Power It was united under an organization called The Phight’s Templar, which had established a presence in all the municipalities of Michoacan, said Garcia Davish.
Calderon’s successor as President, Enrique Peña Nieto, started his own narco war, which destroyed the structure of the Templar command, creating a powerful vacuum. Garcia Davish said that there are now approximately 30 groups – some aligned with the CJNG, others fighting – operating across the country.
“Until today, Michoacan has been plagued by a full-scale civil war between Narcotrafficking gangs,” said Saededo.
