Eight Mexican mayors have been killed since President Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated on October 1, 2024. In a horror show ...

Mayor Alejandro Arcos Catalán was killed less than a week after taking office in Chilpancingo. On Tuesday, the authorities arrested the city’s public security minister in connection with his death.

The killing of Alejandro Arcos, whose beheaded body was found just days after he had been sworn in as mayor, caused shock and revulsion in the violence-wracked state of Guerrero.

Alejandro Arcos faced the additional stress of people wanting to kill him. The day before he was sworn in as mayor of Chilpancingo, the man he chose to be his security chief, ...

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico—Six days after taking office, Mayor Alejandro Arcos loaded his pickup with bottles of water for hurricane victims, ditched his bodyguards and drove off alone into a gang ...

People walk during a protest after the killing of Alejandro Arcos, who had just taken office as the mayor of Chilpancingo, the capital of Mexico's state of Guerrero, in Chilpancingo, Mexico ...

Mayor Alejandro Arcos was killed on Oct. 6 which is less than a week after he took office. via REUTERS This is the vehicle where the remains of Mayor Arcos was found.

The new mayor, Gustavo Alarcón, a doctor, had been elected as an alternate on the same ticket as deceased Mayor Alejandro Arcos in the June election.

Gustavo Alarcon is sworn-in as mayor of Chilpancingo, Guerrero state, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, days after former Mayor Alejandro Arcos was killed less than a week after taking office.

Alejandro Arcos, of Mexico's main opposition alliance, had only taken office six days earlier. Photos circulated on Sunday via WhatsApp and in Mexican media outlets depicting a severed head on ...

A week after assuming power, Chilpancingo Mayor Alejandro Arcos was found beheaded. The body of the 43-year-old mayor was discovered Sunday night inside his pickup truck, with his head resting on ...

Mayor Alejandro Arcos had been sworn into office less than a week before he was murdered. Federal Public Safety Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said four mayors requested protection on Monday, ...