Overview
- Michoacán prosecutors said the gunman who killed Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo was 17, tested positive for methamphetamine, was proven to have fired the weapon and died at the scene.
- New incidents included the fatal shooting of Oaxaca regidora Guadalupe Urbán and the discovery of former Veracruz mayor Lázaro Francisco Luria slain, as authorities found a missing ex-mayor in Michoacán alive and rescued a mayor’s son in Zacatecas.
- Mexico’s Interior Ministry met Catholic Church leaders to develop a Plan Michoacán for Peace and Justice, an outreach ordered by President Claudia Sheinbaum after recent killings.
- Commentary highlighted the use of minors as expendable shooters by criminal groups, a practice that often prevents investigations from reaching intellectual authors.
- Peru’s prison agency contained an attempted mutiny at Ancón 1 and, in a separate case, judicial and prosecutorial authorities probed why two suspects in a January attack in Trujillo were freed after no request to extend preventive detention.