Overview

• Ximena Guzmán, Mayor Clara Brugada's private secretary, and José Muñoz, her adviser, were killed in a motorcycle ambush in the Moderna neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
• The attack, carried out by gunmen who fled the scene, is being investigated by city and federal authorities, with surveillance footage under review to identify the perpetrators.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum and Mayor Brugada condemned the killings, pledging full support for the investigation and emphasizing that there will be no impunity.
• The incident is the most high-profile political assassination in Mexico City since the 2020 ambush of then-police chief Omar García Harfuch, highlighting the capital's increasing vulnerability to cartel-style violence.
• Security experts suggest the attack bears hallmarks of organized crime, potentially aimed at pressuring Brugada’s administration, though the motive remains officially undetermined.