Overview

• Mayor Gustavo Alarcón led a memorial at city hall honoring Alejandro Arcos and publicly demanded justice.
• Authorities have detained and linked to trial Germán Reyes, the acting municipal security chief accused as the homicide’s intellectual author, but no sentence has been issued.
• A week of attacks on public transport left four vehicles burned and led to route suspensions, early business closures, and class stoppages at 500 schools.
• A security specialist reported that residents are leaving for cities such as Cuernavaca because of worsening insecurity.
• The same specialist cited a struggle between Los Tlacos and Los Ardillos for control of strategic corridors around the capital as a driver of the violence.