A local elected died from a fire in West Mexico, two days after the murder of another mayor, in the southern part of the country, made a reported third sources in the area yesterday.

OR Martha Laura Mentosa, Community mayor in Michoacan, murdered two days after the Lilia Garcia – The latter was executed by a group of five armed men who invaded her office at the Community Town Hall in the state of Oaxaca.

“I received a confirmation that as soon as they murdered the President of the City Council (ed. the mayor) of Tepalcateek ‘, who “was directly attacked as they came out with her husband from their home,” said Guillermo Valencia’s predecessor, owned by the opposition PRI party.

The mayor’s husband is also dead, two reporters in the area said.

OR Martha Laura Mentosa He was a member of the ruling Morena party. Her account on X was “social fighter, mother, wife and chairman of the Tepalkateek Municipal Council”.

Michoacan, with an area of ​​22,000 square kilometers, is the state with the largest avocado production in Mexico, the country with the largest production of the world’s fruit tree.

The cartel Nueva Familia Michoacana (“Michoacan’s new family”) is one of the eight Latin American criminal organizations recorded by the Donald Trump government in the blacklist of foreign “terrorist” organizations in February.

After Lilia Garcia was assassinated on Sunday, her mayor Like Matteo Piniathe prosecutor’s prosecution is ‘Five Possible Motivation’Authorities reported Monday during a press conference. They explained that complaints of embezzlement of 120,000 pesos (some $ 6,000) are being examined by the Community Fund, forgery of the mayor’s signature and “The timber crossing from the area”.

Dozens of elected or local public officials have been murdered in the attacks of people of organized crime in recent years in Mexico.

This wave of violence hit the Mexican capital a month ago, which is comparatively left untouched, with the murder of two close associates of the mayor. Clara Broga in the middle road.