Mexico: Yolanda Sánchez, mayor of Cotija, assassinated, 24 hours after the election of the first female president
The mayor of a western Mexican city has been assassinated, just 24 hours after the election of the first female president Claudia Sheinbaum. The local authorities made this known. The government of the Mexican state of Michoacan has condemned “the murder of the municipal president of Cotija, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa”.
Based on initial information, Sánchez was the victim of an armed attack. “A security operation coordinated with federal agencies has been launched to identify those responsible for the episode,” said the public security secretariat of the state of Michoacán. Lawyer and legal consultant in civil law, with experience in the agricultural sector, Sanchez she was the first woman to assume the municipal presidency of Cotija, thanks to her victory in the June 2021 elections, where she obtained 3,486 votes. Having taken office on 1 September 2021, she immediately expressed her joy at being the first female mayor of the municipality, which she described as “land of saints, cradle of globetrotters, of people of work, struggle and good will”. The mayor had also been a target of organized crime in the past: on 23 September 2023 she was kidnapped by alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel while she was in the municipality of Zapopan in Jalisco, the neighboring state of Michoacán. Sánchez was released three days later and her abduction led to the arrest of three men.
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