{"id":111931,"date":"2024-10-08T22:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111931"},"modified":"2024-10-08T22:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:17:15","slug":"anger-and-disgust-in-mexico-over-beheading-of-newly-sworn-in-city-mayor-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111931","title":{"rendered":"Anger and disgust in Mexico over beheading of newly sworn-in city mayor | Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Mexico\u2019s new government has been shaken by the murder of a city mayor who was attacked and beheaded days after taking office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Alejandro Arcos Catal\u00e1n was sworn in as the mayor of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero, on 30 September, a day before Mexico\u2019s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took power herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">On Monday, less than a week into her presidency, Sheinbaum confirmed reports that the 43-year-old city leader had been slain the previous day, telling reporters: \u201cAll the necessary investigations are taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Photographs of Arcos Catal\u00e1n\u2019s bloodied head, exhibited on the roof of a white vehicle while his body lay slumped inside, spread on social media \u2013 a terrible reminder of the violence that Mexico\u2019s organised crime conflict has inflicted on the Latin American country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The mayor\u2019s murder came after two close allies were shot dead in the early days of his short-lived administration. A secretary, Francisco Tapia, was gunned down on 3 October, while Ulises Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez, a former special forces police commander who was tipped to become Arcos Catal\u00e1n\u2019s security chief, was riddled with bullets on the eve of the mayor\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Shocked citizens shared footage of an interview with the mayor before his death in which he said he wished to be remembered as a champion of peace and happiness. \u201cI\u2019ve lived here all my life \u2026 and it\u2019s here that I want to die \u2013 but I want to die fighting for my city,\u201d Arcos Catal\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The murder sparked anger and disgust, with Alejandro Moreno, the president of Arcos Catal\u00e1n\u2019s party, the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI), denouncing what he called a grotesque \u201cact of terror\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Ricardo Anaya, an opposition senator, lamented the \u201cspine-chilling\u201d security situation in Mexico, where more than 450,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calder\u00f3n launched his doomed \u201cwar\u201d against the drug cartels in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThe fact that they have decapitated the mayor of such an important city should make us shudder. It is utterly unacceptable and we need to do something to ensure it stops happening,\u201d Anaya told reporters, calling for an immediate change in tack in security policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">But Sheinbaum has promised to continue the so-called \u201chugs, not bullets\u201d security policy of her predecessor and mentor, the 70-year-old nationalist Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, during her six-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWe will not return to Calder\u00f3n\u2019s reckless war on the narcos that did our country so much harm. It remains our conviction that security and peace are the fruits of justice,\u201d she told thousands of supporters who packed Mexico City\u2019s Z\u00f3calo Square for her historic inauguration last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Although L\u00f3pez Obrador claimed to have achieved a modest reduction in Mexico\u2019s murder rate in the later stages of his presidency, there is consensus among security analysts that his attempts to \u201cpacify\u201d the country failed. Last year Mexico suffered more than 30,000 murders. According to the Instituto Igarap\u00e9 thinktank, Mexico was home to <a href=\"https:\/\/americasquarterly.org\/article\/latin-americas-murder-rates-reveal-surprising-new-trends\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">11 of the world\u2019s 50 most murderous cities<\/a> in 2023, compared with three in 2015. Chilpancingo was one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Despite that bleak reality, L\u00f3pez Obrador, who most Mexicans know simply as Amlo, left office with approval ratings of 70%, largely as a result of his relentless focus on fighting inequality and positioning himself as a champion of the poor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"8b2aa714-ae8e-49a1-ae69-d61298316e5e\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:13,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Triumph and a broken promise: Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador vowed to transform Mexico, but did he?&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;8b2aa714-ae8e-49a1-ae69-d61298316e5e&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/30\/mexico-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0,&quot;design&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Aware that tackling violence represents one of her most daunting challenges \u2013 and under pressure after Arcos Catal\u00e1n\u2019s murder \u2013 Sheinbaum said she would set out her public security plans on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Another major security crisis is playing out in the north-western city of Culiac\u00e1n, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2024\/9\/27\/civil-war-in-the-home-of-mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-fear-grips-culiacan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">an internal conflict<\/a> within the Sinaloa cartel triggered by the capture of its co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/25\/sinaloa-cartel-leaders-arrested\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ismael \u201cEl Mayo\u201d Zambada Garc\u00eda<\/a> has led to scores of killings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Sheinbaum\u2019s security drive will be spearheaded by the security minister, Omar Garc\u00eda Harfuch, who served as her police chief while she was mayor of Mexico City. Garc\u00eda Harfuch has first-hand experience of the dangers of organised crime: in 2020 he came close to death when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/three-die-in-attempted-of-mexico-city-police-chief\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">hitmen ambushed his car<\/a> on the capital\u2019s best-known street, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2021-06-21\/omar-garcia-harfuch-the-mexican-police-chief-who-survived-being-shot-at-414-times.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">firing more than 400 times with assault rifles and grenade launchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The identity of the killers of the mayor of Chilpancingo remained unclear but in recent years the city has witnessed a bloody squabble between two criminal groups called Los Ardillos (the Squirrels) and Los Tlacos. As often happens in Mexico, local politicians have been implicated in that underworld. Arcos Catal\u00e1n\u2019s predecessor Norma Otilia Hern\u00e1ndez was removed from office after compromising footage emerged showing her talking with a Squirrels boss in a restaurant. Hern\u00e1ndez, who was then a member of L\u00f3pez Obrador and Sheinbaum\u2019s political movement, Morena, claimed it was a \u201cchance\u201d encounter, but was later expelled from the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">After his election earlier this year, Arcos Catal\u00e1n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsoldeacapulco.com.mx\/local\/estado\/pactar-o-dialogar-con-grupos-de-criminales-no-es-algo-viable-alcalde-electo-de-chilpancingo-12247506.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">reportedly<\/a> said he would not do deals or negotiate with criminal groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/08\/mexico-murder-beheading-city-mayor-alejandro-arcos-catalan-chilpancingo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s new government has been shaken by the murder of a city mayor who was attacked and beheaded days after taking office. 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