Mexico City, México - Yanet Morales Huízar, mayor of Apulco, leads the administration of a 5,000 resident town in Mexico's central Zacatecas state via telephone.
Facing threats from rival drug cartels vying for control of the territorially strategic state, Mayor Morales governs in exile from an undisclosed location in neighboring Jalísco. Her husband has been kidnapped and tortured, her house burned, and members of her security detail attacked.
