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.


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Woman mayor killed in Mexico just hours after election of first female president

Jolanda Sanchez, the mayor of the city of Kotih Peace, was killed in an ambush by a group of armed men suspected of belonging to organized criminal groups.

Jolanda Sančez, gradonačelnica grada Kotiha de la Paz, ubijena je u zasedi grupe naoružanih muškaraca za koje se sumnja da pripadaju organizovanim kriminalnim grupama.

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Violence: On the day Mexico got its first president, the female mayor was killed.

The mayor of a town in western Mexico was killed on Monday, the regional government said, barely 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country's first woman president. The Michoacan state government condemned "the murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa", the regional interior ministry said in a post on the social media platform X. The murder of the woman mayor comes after Sheinbaum…

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Mexican Mayor Killed Day After First Woman President Elected

The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead less than a day after the country elected its first female president, in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates.

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Mayor of Cotija, in the Mexican state of Michoacán, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, had already been kidnapped on September 23, 2023

Prefeita de Cotija, no Estado mexicano de Michoacán, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, já havia sido sequestrada em 23 de setembro de 2023

Prefeita é assassinada no México um dia após eleição presidencial vencida por Sheinbaum

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Mayor assassinated in Mexico one day after Sheinbaum's presidential election victory

By Omar Fajardo, Mitchell McCluskey and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead Monday, authorities said, just hours after the country elected its first female president in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates. Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state, was walking from a gym back to her house with her bodyguard when they were shot by people in a white van, the state att…

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Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa's murder comes after Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory injected hope for change in a country riven by gender-based violence.

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Woman mayor shot dead in Mexico day after Claudia Sheinbaum's historic presidential win

Ms Sanchez Figueroa had also previously been kidnapped in September 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Woman mayor killed in Mexico, just hours after election of first female president

Cotija Municipality Mayor Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa was killed in the Mexican state of Michoacán, local authorities said. RIA Novosti, 04.06.2024

Глава муниципалитета Котиха Йоланда Санчес Фигероа была убита в мексиканском штате Мичоакан, сообщили местные власти. РИА Новости, 04.06.2024

В мексиканском штате Мичоакан убили мэра

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The mayor of the Mexican state of Michoacan was killed

The mayor of a town in western Mexico was killed a day after Claudia Sheinbaum won the country’s record-breaking presidential election. The Michoacan state government condemned “the murder of the municipal president of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa,” the regional interior ministry wrote in a post on X. Sanchez, who was elected mayor in 2021, was standing just a few feet away from the municipal palace when she was shot multiple times. No detai…

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Figueroa was kidnapped in Guadalajara city, Jalisco state, from a shopping center in September 2023 and found three days later.

Figueroa, Eylül 2023’te Jalisco eyaletinin Guadalajara şehrinde bir alışveriş merkezinden kaçırılmış ve 3 gün sonra bulunmuştu

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