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Mexico Links Cartel to Mayor Manzo Murder

Summary by The Rio Times
Michoacán prosecutors say the CJNG cartel ordered the Manzo murder as revenge for a local boss's arrest; 33 people were detained and the probe is 90% complete.

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The former mayor was gunned down during the Sailing Festival; behind his murder was identified a cell linked to the CJNG that planned the crime

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Although everyone used to write in lowercase letters, El Licenciado sent a capital letter that afternoon to the chat group, a phrase that cleared any doubt about the importance of the objective: Carlos Manzo had to die right there. It was 19.50 on November 1, 2025. It was six or seven minutes before one of the boys fired his gun nine millimetres at the victim. The mayor of Uruapan, one of the richest agricultural areas in Mexico, walked through …

·Madrid, Spain
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Twelve months after the murder, the investigations have led to the identification and arrest of persons identified for their alleged involvement in different stages of the attack, from the recruitment of minors involved and the monitoring of the mayor's movements, to the planning and coordination of the attack.The entry One year of the murder of Carlos Manzo: 34 detainees, those arrested and what remains to be investigated was first published in…

A phone with encrypted conversations and a hard drive with organized crime information allowed the authorities to reconstruct the alleged participation of a structure of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) in the murder of Carlos Manzo, which occurred on November 1, 2025 in Uruapan, Michoacán. According to an investigation by EL PAÍS, ...

The state prosecutor's office reports 33 detainees and an arrest warrant pending against the former head of escorts of the edil...

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Vanguardia broke the news in Saltillo, Mexico on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
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