A mayor was assassinated a few days after his election in Mexico

The mayor of a southern Mexican community, who had just been elected in the June 2 elections, was murdered yesterday Monday on a street near Acapulco, the state prosecutor’s office in Guerrero said. Salvador Villalba Flores, elected with the local party México Avanza (“Mexico Forward”, center left), was murdered on the Acapulco-Pinotepa highway, explained a press release from the prosecutor’s office, which is investigating the case. The elector was a captain of a.a. of the navy and was usually accompanied by members of the National Guard, according to El Sur newspaper. But he was unaccompanied when he was murdered, the same source said. The attackers took the elected mayor “from the bus he was traveling on” and executed him, according to a report published in the digital edition of the newspaper. Salvador Villalba Flores decided to run after his friend Jesus Gonzalez Rios, leader of the Greens (Partido Verde) was assassinated in Copala on June 29, 2023, according to him and other media. In Mexico they were held on June 2 […]
Source: News Beast

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