Mexico’s Sheinbaum pledges justice after murder of outspoken anti-crime mayor

Mexico City
Reuters
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised on Sunday there would be justice for the brazen murder of a local mayor, Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organized crime who had called on the government to do more to protect him and others.

Manzo, 40, was shot on Saturday while attending a candlelight Day of the Dead festival in the city center of Uruapan, in the violence-plagued western state of Michoacan.

Two suspects were arrested and a third was dead, Mexico’s security ministry said on Saturday.

Sheinbaum called an emergency meeting of her security cabinet on Sunday morning, later condemning Manzo’s “vile”…