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Weekly Report - 28 July 2016 (WR-16-29)
MEXICO: Mayoral murders raise security concerns
Two Mexican mayors were murdered in the space of 12 hours this week. The interior minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, condemned the murders, saying that the federal government was working closely with state authorities to identify and detain the culprits. “We have to protect those working for the country…for the good of all of the population,” Osorio Chong said. “Although for different causes, these incidents simply cannot be tolerated in our country,” he said. One of the mayors was murdered by indigenous protesters; the other, on the orders of criminal gangs.
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