MEXICO CITY – The newly installed mayor of the central Mexican city of Temixco was killed Saturday, a day after she took office, officials said.“They’ve informed me of the attack on the mayor of Temixco, Gisela Mota, a young and dear colleague. This a challenge by organized crime. We won’t give in,” Graco Ramirez – the governor of the central state of Morelos, where Temixco is located – said on Twitter.
Ramirez, like Mota a member of the center-left PRD party, said the suspected perpetrators of the attack – which local media said also left two others dead at the mayor’s home – had already been arrested.
The PRD’s chairman, Agustin Basave, lamented the mayor’s murder, demanded justice and expressed his condolences to the family of the victim.
The politician’s bodyguards requested police assistance after the gunmen opened fire at her home, media reports said, adding that after they caught up to them a shootout ensued that left two of the assailants dead and two others arrested.
Mota was killed a day after the state government launched a public safety operation involving the participation of federal forces.
A study released in 2015 by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, a non-governmental organization, said Morelos’ capital, Cuernavaca, located just north of Temixco, had replaced Acapulco as Mexico’s most violent city.
Morelos, which borders Mexico City to the south, has the highest violent crime rates among Mexico’s 32 federal entities, the same study showed.
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