Over the weekend, Carlos Manzo Rodríguez, mayor of Uruapan in Michoacán, was killed, becoming Mexico's seventh mayor to die this year in such circumstances. Facing criticism, President Claudia Sheinbaum defended her administration's security strategy, saying the current wave of violence stems from the drug war launched under previous governments.
"There are those who call, as happened during the war on drugs, for militarization and confrontation. That did not work. In fact, it was what led to the violence in Michoacán. The war on drugs failed," Sheinbaum said. On the contrary, it created the violence that we are only now starting to reduce."
