MEXICO CITY.- And mayor of the state of Guerrero (south) elected in the recent elections of Mexico He was murdered this Monday morning on a road in the tourist port of Acapulco, the regional prosecutor’s office reported.
Salvador Villalba Flores, elected municipal president of Copala by the new regional party México Avanza, was killed on the Acapulco-Pinotepa Nacional highway, the Guerrero prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The institution added that it began the investigation for qualified homicide, without giving more details.
El Sur de Guerrero, a newspaper from that region, noted that Villalba is a retired captain of the Navy Secretariat and had escorts from the National Guard, who, however, did not accompany him on a trip he was taking to Mexico City when he was murdered. .
“The elected mayor was taken off the bus in which he was traveling when the unit stopped near San Pedro las Playas” in the early hours of Monday to shoot him dead, that media outlet noted on its website.
Mexico held general elections on June 2. During the electoral campaign that began in September, around thirty candidates for various positions were murdered, according to the NGO Data Cívica.
In those elections, the leftist Claudia Sheinbaum was elected by an overwhelming majority as the first president in the history of the Latin American country.
Source: With information from AFP
