The killing of Yolanda Sanchez comes just hours after a historic landslide victory for Mexico's first woman president.

Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s first woman president.

Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of Cotija, which she had governed since September 2021.

She was the first woman to be elected to the post.

Widespread violence against politicians has overshadowed Mexico’s general election, which saw two women run for the presidency.

Yolanda Sánchez was ambushed by gunmen in the centre of Cotija, Michoacán, on Monday.

Local media say she was shot 19 times and died in hospital shortly after the attack. Her bodyguard was also killed in the gun battle.

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I read your other comment too - absolutely a lot of little “shame if something were to happen there” events going on lately. So the reporters gotta keep the clicks coming, since the murder of a mayor apparently isn’t enough anymore.

    Also, it would be a shame if something were to happen to all those judges and jurors for Donald Trump’s various trials as well… And the people who count and verify elections too. And anyone else to be named at a future date for any reason whatsoever. Or possibly (if anyone remembers the Four Seasons… Landscaping & Gardening incident) others who happen to have a similar enough name. Or whatever, bc it’s a Tuesday.

    Somewhere “above” (below?) us all, the rich are fighting, and the common man (& woman, & child, etc.) are getting caught up in it all.