Mexican mayor ‘decapitated’ by drug gangs six days into job

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******** mayor ‘decapitated’ by ***** gangs six days into job

The mayor of a

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plagued by gang ********* has been murdered less than a week after taking office.

Photos circulating online among locals showed what appeared to be Alejandro Arcos’s severed head on top of a Volkswagen pick-up truck and the rest of his body inside a car in the Villas del Roble neighbourhood, east of the city.

Arcos was sworn in as the mayor of

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, Guerrero, last Monday, and his ****** was confirmed by authorities late on Sunday.

Local media reported that Arcos had been decapitated, but state prosecutors offered no details when confirming his ****** in a statement on Sunday.

His ****** provoked unease across Chilpancingo, a city which is no stranger to

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, with residents choosing not to leave their homes after 9pm and schools suspending classes.

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Alejandro Moreno, the national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, called on federal authorities to take charge of the investigation given Guerrero’s “ungovernability”.

Mr Moreno also revealed that Arcos’s ******* came just three days after the ********* of Francisco Tapia, the city government’s new secretary.

“They had been in office less than a week,” Mr Moreno said. “They were young and honest public servants who were seeking progress for their community.”

Chilpancingo, the capital of the Guerrero province, has been home to

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between the Ardillos and the Tlacos, two local ***** gangs, for years.

It is a city so violent that the Ardillos group once organised a violent demonstration, hijacked an armoured government car, and took 10 police officers ******** after its gang leaders were arrested for drugs and weapons possession.

Arcos’s social media posts reveal he had spent his first few days in office overseeing disaster relief after Hurricane John caused severe flooding in beach resort Acapulco and its surrounding towns.

He had also spent time meeting with relief workers and residents in the hours before his ******, according to photos posted on his

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Investigators and forensic teams at the scene where the ******** of Arcos were found on Oct 6 – ****** GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images

In addition to the murders of Tapia and Acros, at least six candidates running for public office were ******* in Guerrero in the run-up to the June elections.

During the election campaign, Acros’s team accused his opponents of waging a “****** war” against him by linking him to the Ardillos ***** gang on flyers which were distributed to thousands of residents.

Arcos went on to win the election – his third attempt – by around 1,000 votes on June 2, the same day

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was elected as Mexico’s first female president.

In the months leading up to the country’s general election, at least 37 candidates were *******, while dozens more dropped out after receiving ****** threats.

As a result, Ms Sheinbaum has made “pacifying the country” one of her primary aims while in office.

A strategy presentation seen by the Wall Street Journal showed proposals to slash killings in the country’s 10 deadliest cities, which includes Acapulco.

“We are developing a programme for the municipalities that at this moment have the largest number of homicides,” Ms Sheinbaum said shortly after taking office on Oct 1.

Acros is the third mayor to be murdered in Guerrero this year, after the deaths of Copala’s Salvador Villalva Flores and Malinaltepec’s Acasio Flores Guerrero.

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