MEXICO CITY – The embattled mayor of the western Mexican town of Santa Ana Maya was murdered by organized crime, political allies said, rejecting media accounts that Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza died in a car crash.“It is another cunning crime against our comrade municipal president, as the family informed us that he arrived at his home at midnight and was taken from there by several people ... and appeared dead hours later,” the Association of Mexican Local Authorities said.
Lopez Mendoza “suffered during his administration, not only the lack of resources, but also the harassment of organized crime,” the association said.
The association called on authorities in Michoacan state to investigate the mayor’s death.
Nearly 50 current and former mayors have been slain in Mexican during the last eight years, the association noted.
Federal lawmaker Aleida Alavez Ruiz asked her colleagues in the lower house to observe a moment of silence for Lopez Mendoza.
The mayor, she said, “was murdered this early morning and just returned to his community after 15 days of a hunger strike outside the Senate of the Republic to denounce extortion on the part of organized crime.”
“It is a great tragedy what is happening in our country, not just in Michoacan, so we join that demand for investigation and justice,” another lawmaker, Magdalena del Socorro Nuñez Monreal, said of the mayor’s death
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