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Weekly Report - 27 March 2014 (WR-14-12)
MEXICO: Mayors extorted by criminals - and legislators?
Gustavo Garibay García, the mayor of Tanhuato in the conflict-torn south-western state of Michoacán, was murdered on 22 March. He had narrowly survived an attempt on his life by organised crime in October 2012 for refusing to pay extortion money. Mayors are not just the victims of extortion from drug-trafficking organisations (DTOs), but also, allegedly, unscrupulous politicians in the federal congress. On 20 March, just two days before Garibay was murdered, a local paper published the results of an investigation which it claimed provided evidence that senior federal deputies were also extorting mayors, demanding ‘commission’ (dubbed moches) in exchange for obtaining more federal resources for their municipalities.
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