The mayor is the latest local official to be killed in an area of Mexico where organised crime holds sway.
  • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    And Oaxaca‘s one of the safer states in Mexico. Maybe cartels are spreading there now.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      García Soto is the second mayor to be killed in Oaxaca state this year. In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.