Gunmen shot dead the mayor of a Mexican city during a public event on Saturday, authorities said, in an area plagued by violence and organized crime.
Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan in the western state of Michoacan, was killed in an attack in the city center, the national public security agency said in a statement.
“Two people involved in the incident were arrested, and one of the assailants had lost his life,” it added.
Michoacan state has for years suffered violence from powerful drug cartels operating in the agricultural region, seeking to extort farmers.
The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send American troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target drug cartels, according to two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.
