Overview
- Mexico’s Senate condemned the killing of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez and backed President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Plan Michoacán por la Paz y la Justicia, after holding a minute of silence.
- The Michoacán Congress received formal notice of Manzo’s permanent absence and was slated to vote in an extraordinary session Wednesday on appointing his widow, Grecia Quiroz, who could be sworn in the same day.
- El Heraldo reported two alleged attackers detained and one killed in the Nov. 1 shooting at a public event in Uruapan.
- Federal security chief Omar García Harfuch said Manzo had National Guard protection since December 2024, including 14 personnel and two official vehicles.
- Opposition senators pressed for restored municipal security funding and police professionalization, while PRD local party blocs demanded an impartial probe that identifies both material and intellectual authors.