Temixco, Mexico elected a new mayor who promised to fight crime – and one day after she was in office, she was gunned down by a drug cartel. Mayor Gisela Mota was killed at her house after being sworn in on January 1, 2016.
Poor woman, may she rest in peace.
Mexico needs an entirely new approach to tackling the narcos, because clearly the tack of the past ten years has been a disaster.
The drug traffickers have become an existential threat to Mexico – a cancer that will transform it into an utterly failed state. And for us in America, that would be a disaster.
Here’s the video report:
From the Associated Press:
Gunmen opened fire on Mayor Gisela Mota at her house in the city of Temixco, said the government of Morelos state, where Temixco is located. Two presumed assailants were killed and three others detained following a pursuit, said Morelos security commissioner Jesus Alberto Capella. He said the suspects fired on federal police and soldiers from a vehicle.
On his Twitter account, Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez attributed Mota’s killing to organized crime, without citing a particular drug cartel or gang. Cartels seeking to control communities and towns have often targeted local officials and mayors in Mexico.
Mota’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party released a statement describing her as “a strong and brave woman who on taking office as mayor, declared that her fight against crime would be frontal and direct.”l and direct.”
The woman was brave; she trusted too much. The people voted, but the gangs killed her. These same gangs trade with gangs in the U.S.
What will stop these gangs from enacting their violence against elected representatives in the U.S. after they are emboldened to do so?
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Mexico mayor killed less than a day after taking office; officials blame organized crime. https://t.co/5GP9FEmdwo pic.twitter.com/LyL2oXUbYj
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) January 3, 2016
H/T: Associated Press
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