Asesinan a balazos a un alcalde en medio de festejos del Día de Muertos en el occidente de México – Chicago Tribune
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Day of the Dead celebrations in the violent western Mexican state of Michoacán had a tragic finale Saturday when an alcalde from that region was murdered by balazos during the traditional holiday.
The alcalde of the municipality of Uruapan, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, shot the night of Saturday in the middle of a multitude that concentrated in the historic center of this locality to enjoy the “Festival of the Velas”, an event that organized the local authorities as part of the festivities of the day. Muertos. The politician’s homicide occurred less than five months after the death of Salvador Bastidas, alcalde of the Tacambaro municipality in the state of Michoacán.
The attack on Manzo Rodríguez, sent by the party governor Morena, who recorded himself in videos that spread in social networks observing them as decades of locals and tourists, some disfrazados and with the rostros pintados, took advantage of the event between kilometers of burning sails, cempasuchil flowers and figures of calaveras, when they heard various detonations of firearms and that the men come running to protect the balls.
In another video, there is an inert person tense in his own environment, an assistant to a civil servant.
Manzo Rodríguez was urgently transferred to a hospital where he died, informed tax officer Carlos Torres Piña. In this attack, the result was also that the municipal regulator was hired and escorted.
The attacker of Manzo Rodríguez was shot dead instead and had two people detained in connection with the tiroteo, according to the official governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, in a publication in X in which he condemned the case.
The Gabinete de Seguridad Federal informs that the Michoacán authorities and federal forces are monitoring the area and carrying out surveillance checks to guarantee the safety of the population.
Manzo Rodríguez, one of those who call him “El Bukele Mexicano” in allusion to the many security policies of Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele, took over as president of the Uruapan Assembly in September 2024 to win this year’s general media elections with the independent movement called “Los del Sombrero”.
In recent months, the alcalde of Uruapan, who had the protection of the National Guard after receiving threats from the Jalisco Nueva Generation cartel, was solicited in social networks alongside President Claudia Sheinbaum and was denounced for corruption by Ramírez Bedolla and the Michoacán police.
The bastides were rented in June to your escort when you settle into your home in the Centro de Tacámbaro colony.
In Uruapan, it was also drawn in October 2024 by journalist Mauricio Cruz Solís shortly after being interviewed by Manzo Rodríguez.
Michoacán is one of the most violent states in Mexico and a scenario of struggle against various cartels and criminal groups for control of the territory for the distribution of drugs and the commission of other offenders.
