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Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An Indigenous leader and former mayor of a coffee-growing town in the mountains of eastern Mexico was murdered this weekend, the Veracruz state prosecutor's office said Sunday night in a brief message on social media. Juan Carlos Mezhua governed Zongolica from 2018 to 2021, where he established a community police force to protect the town located in a region of the Veracruz mountains with a strong presence of …
When I began to read the huge but enjoyable Mexico: A 500-Year History of Paul Gillingham, Mexican newspapers were once again focused on the recurrent drama of political violence. In Uruapan, a medium-sized city in the west of the country, a teenage hit man, under the orders of a drug cartel, had shot to death an independent democratically elected rancher-style mayor. The alleged murderer (shot after his arrest) was the son of a guitar maker fro…
Former local and federal deputy and former PRD president of Zongolica, central mountainous area of Veracruz, Juan Carlos Mezhua, was shot to death this Sunday in the Piedras Blancas community of Zongolica. Armed men traveling in two vans attacked him to...
ZONGOLICA, Veracruz. – Juan Carlos Mezhua Campos, former mayor of Zongolica, Nahua leader and former federal and local deputy, was executed this morning with multiple gunfire shots just 50 metres from a National Guard barracks and just a few hours before President Claudia Sheinbaum landed in the port of Veracruz to head the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Mexican Navy. The events occurred around 7:00 a.m. at the entrance of a calera of …
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