Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa Obituary, Woman Mayor Killed In Mexico Day After Claudia Sheinbaum’s Historic Presidential Win: The mayor of a town in western Mexico was assassinated on Monday, the regional administration reported, only 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country’s first female president.
Michoacan’s state government condemned “the murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa,” according to a social media statement by the regional interior ministry. The assassination of the female mayor comes after Sheinbaum’s landslide victory instilled optimism for reform in a country plagued by pervasive gender-based violence. Sanchez, who was elected mayor in the 2021 elections, was shot dead on a public road, according to local media.
Her Facebook page states that she is “defined by my preparation and the desire to make Cotija a better place to live.” Authorities have not provided any specifics about the murder, but they have stated that a security operation has been begun to apprehend the perpetrators. The lawmaker was previously kidnapped in September last year while leaving a shopping center in Guadalajara, Jalisco, a neighboring state to Michoacan.
