Mexico mayor slain a day after taking office
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Associated Press By MARIA VERZA 4 hours ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of a city south of Mexico's capital was shot to death on Saturday, less than a day after taking office, officials said.

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."

Temixco is a city of about 100,000 people neighboring Cuernavaca, a resort and industrial city which has been suffering kidnappings and extortion linked to organized crime groups. Though Cuernavaca is the capital of Morelos, Temixco is the seat of several state institutions including the Public Security Commission, which coordinates state and local police forces. Morelos also neighbors drug cartel-plagued Guerrero state.


Mota, who had been a federal congresswoman, was sworn into office on New Year's Day. She was killed the following day.

Morelos Gov. Ramirez vowed there "would be no impunity" in her killing and promised that state officials would not cede to what he described as a "challenge from criminals."

Federal and state forces are deployed in Cuernavaca and municipalities near the Guerrero state border in what is called operation "Delta."

Capella did not provide more details about the attack on Mota, but said that when the suspects were detained, authorities found a 9-millimeter gun, an Uzi, ski masks and an SUV with Mexico State license plates.

Morelos Attorney General Javier Perez Duron said the detained suspects have been tied to other crimes, but declined to provide more details.

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setting new records South Of The Border?

Brave woman. Damn!


Maybe... Mexico needs to follow the USA as we are following Europe.. House Resolution 4269 (banning assault weapons), and House Resolution 569
(Don't bash Muslims : European model).
They may not have meet their immigration quota or agreed to the UN mandate for refugees either.

Otherwise.. She may never have been shot. But it had to be 'homegrown terrorism' right ?

* yea..sarcasm *


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that Resolution has less chance than a Snowball in Hell!
And O'barry's Idiocies he's gonna pen next week will be undone soon!

I am not so sure.. Most people don't pay attention. And would gladly give up rights & freedoms for illusions of peace & safety.

When will the Mexicans learn they just need to start PAC's and lobbyist groups.

Is it the cartels are just too greedy?

It's not all that difficult to buy off a politician.

You just need lots of difficult to trace cash.

Guess bullets are cheaper.

...Although, maybe he was bought and paid for by a rival cartel and another drug group thought to remove the political pawn.


Muslim refugees to Mexico and South America?
Yay! Free human traffic and potential slave labor for the drug trade!


Oh, you mean

Mexico is more "progressive" in their gun "rights" than the U.S.

In effect their "2nd amendment" is more like "A well regulated Militia, being separate and different than private citizens, necessary to the security of a free and generally corrupt State, the right of the military and law enforcement people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed, whereas the rights of private citizens or general public can be infringed so they can only have certain types of guns, certain types of calibers, that the state defines for them and allows them to have, and the private citizens have to register everything, can only use or carry them in their home for their own defense, otherwise have to get permission from the state, and you may have to justify to your masters why you need them before you're granted the ability to exercise your right."

...So...not really all that different than the U.S.