45 Mayors Killed in 6 years by the Cartel
Upon being attacked , the then mayor of Tiquicheo , Michoacán . MEXICO CITY - The National Conference of Municipalities of Mexico ( NCTM ) revealed that 40 % of the 457 mayors of the country are threatened by organized crime .
He also stressed that in the last six years they have killed 45 mayors and 30 more were raised in the same period. In an assessment released on the eve of the meeting held Monday with Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong .
the president of the National Conference , Leticia Quezada , chief borough PRD in Magdalena Contreras , said that the most dangerous cities in the states of Michoacan , Guerrero , Sinaloa , Chihuahua , Tamaulipas and Durango.
Quezada , who on Monday expressed solidarity with the hunger strike that began last Friday in April the mayor of Santa Ana Maya , Michoacan, Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza said that many of the threats from organized crime against mayors have been detected in municipalities bordering the U.S. border , where the mayors sleep in foreign territory and shipped from their municipal day .
On Friday 4, the PT mayor of Santa Ana Maya , Michoacan, Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza , began a hunger strike " indefinitely " in this city , to protest government 's disdain for meeting the urgent needs of the municipalities.
In a statement released that day , the Association of Local Authorities of Mexico AC noted that the three-time PRD municipal leader resorted to such a measure " to the serious situation faced by most Mexican municipalities that have same paralysis and bankruptcy financial situation makes it impossible to efficiently services , public works and security that citizens demand . "
The hunger strike of the physician and surgeon midwife -founder of the Mexican Communist Party in Santa Ana Maya and former Municipal Party Committee Mexican Workers ( PMT ) - is due to the lack of concrete answers to the demands that municipal governments have raised the federal government and the Congress of the Union , explained the newsletter.
He stressed:" This extreme measure is taken with full responsibility, but with the firm conviction that they turn to look to municipal governments , whose governance model is exhausted and can not cope with the obligations it has to the population."
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Upon being attacked , the then mayor of Tiquicheo , Michoacán . MEXICO CITY - The National Conference of Municipalities of Mexico ( NCTM ) revealed that 40 % of the 457 mayors of the country are threatened by organized crime .
He also stressed that in the last six years they have killed 45 mayors and 30 more were raised in the same period. In an assessment released on the eve of the meeting held Monday with Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong .
the president of the National Conference , Leticia Quezada , chief borough PRD in Magdalena Contreras , said that the most dangerous cities in the states of Michoacan , Guerrero , Sinaloa , Chihuahua , Tamaulipas and Durango.
Quezada , who on Monday expressed solidarity with the hunger strike that began last Friday in April the mayor of Santa Ana Maya , Michoacan, Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza said that many of the threats from organized crime against mayors have been detected in municipalities bordering the U.S. border , where the mayors sleep in foreign territory and shipped from their municipal day .
On Friday 4, the PT mayor of Santa Ana Maya , Michoacan, Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza , began a hunger strike " indefinitely " in this city , to protest government 's disdain for meeting the urgent needs of the municipalities.
In a statement released that day , the Association of Local Authorities of Mexico AC noted that the three-time PRD municipal leader resorted to such a measure " to the serious situation faced by most Mexican municipalities that have same paralysis and bankruptcy financial situation makes it impossible to efficiently services , public works and security that citizens demand . "
The hunger strike of the physician and surgeon midwife -founder of the Mexican Communist Party in Santa Ana Maya and former Municipal Party Committee Mexican Workers ( PMT ) - is due to the lack of concrete answers to the demands that municipal governments have raised the federal government and the Congress of the Union , explained the newsletter.
He stressed:" This extreme measure is taken with full responsibility, but with the firm conviction that they turn to look to municipal governments , whose governance model is exhausted and can not cope with the obligations it has to the population."
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CARACAS – Three assailants died Thursday in an attack on the head of Venezuela’s Indepabis consumer protection agency, who escaped unscathed, police said.
BOGOTA – Four people were killed and two others injured when a small U.S.-registered plane involved in anti-drug operations crashed in a rural area in Choco, a province in northwestern Colombia, officials said.
