Female mayor in Mexico killed one day after first woman elected president

Published June 4, 2024 2:54pm ET



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.

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