A Mexican local leader was assassinated yesterday.
"Miriam Nohemí Ríos Ríos, comisionada de Movimiento Ciudadano en Jacona, Michoacán, fue asesinada la tarde de este jueves."
Matan a comisionada trans de MC en Michoacán: Los primeros reportes señalan que la víctima se encontraba en su negocio de gorras ubicado en avenida Juárez, la colonia Libertad, cuando un grupo de armados le disparó. Redacción AN / AG. Aristegui Noticias. 11 Jan, 2024.
A few months later, another local leader, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, was assassinated:
"The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead Monday, authorities said, just hours after the country elected its first female president in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates.
Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state, was walking from a gym back to her house with her bodyguard when they were shot by people in a white van, the state attorney general said in a statement.
Both Sánchez Figueroa and her bodyguard later died in hospital..."
— Woman mayor killed in Mexico just hours after election of first female president, Omar Fajardo, Mitchell McCluskey and Kathleen Magramo, CNN, June 5, 2024
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