
Rather than civilian police for reining in Mexico´s persistently high levels of violence. The president has placed tremendous responsibility on the armed forces Time when the security strategy of President Andrés Manuel López While attacks on public officials are not uncommon in Mexico, these come at a Morelos, a state lawmaker was shot to death in the city of Cuernavaca south of

Later Wednesday, in the neighboring state of Images from the scene showedĪ bullet-riddled city hall. The dead were Mayor Conrado Mendoza and his father, a former mayor of the town, she said. Wednesday that 18 people were killed and two were wounded in the town of San Miguel Totolapan. State Attorney General Sandra Luz Valdovinos told Milenio television late Southern Mexico state of Guerrero on Wednesday, authorities said.

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Attackers gunned down a mayor, his father and 16 other people in the
