Mayor’s personal secretary and advisor murdered in Mexico City

The idiosyncratic caput of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada and a authorities advisor were changeable dormant connected a engaged avenue successful the superior connected Tuesday morning, authorities said.

The Mexico City authorities said successful a connection that Ximena Guzmán, Brugada’s idiosyncratic secretary, and José Muñoz, an advisor, were killed astatine the intersection of Calzada de Tlalpan and Napoleón Street successful the vicinity of Moderna, located successful the Benito Juárez borough.

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The onslaught occurred adjacent the Xola Metro presumption earlier 8 a.m., the Reforma paper reported. Both victims reportedly died astatine the country of the crime.

Brugada, politician since past October, expressed her “deep sadness” astir the murders successful a societal media station successful which she shared her government’s statement.

The connection said that the aggressors were connected a motorbike erstwhile they opened occurrence connected the conveyance successful which Guzmán and Muñoz were traveling.

The Mexico City authorities said that the section Security Ministry and Attorney General’s Office, “with enactment from the authorities of Mexico,” are carrying retired investigations “to find the motive of the attack.”

“In addition, an investigation of [footage from] video surveillance cameras successful the country is being carried retired to place the probable culprits, who it is known were traveling connected a motorcycle,” the authorities said.

“There won’t beryllium impunity. The culprits volition beryllium arrested and they indispensable look justice. From the Mexico City authorities we nonstop our condolences to the relatives and loved ones [of the victims], and each indispensable enactment volition beryllium provided,” the connection concluded.

President Claudia Sheinbaum work retired the Mexico City authorities connection astatine her greeting property league and pledged that justness volition beryllium served.

“We’re going to get to the bottommost of this situation,” she said, adding that the national authorities volition supply “unconditional support” for Brugada.

Sheinbaum besides said that the 2 victims had collaborated with the ruling Morena enactment for an extended period.

“Our solidarity and enactment to the families of these 2 people, who had been moving successful our question for a agelong time. We cognize them. Our solidarity with their families and with Clara,” she said.

While Sheinbaum was politician of Mexico City, her past information curate Omar García Harfuch — present the national information curate — was targeted successful an equipped onslaught successful the superior that was attributed to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

García Harfuch was wounded successful the 2020 attack, portion 3 different radical were killed.

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With reports from Reforma and Milenio