The personal secretary and an advisor to the mayor of Mexico have been killed by armed men on a motorcycle in a cheeky day attack in a central part of the city.
Mayor Clara Brugada called the murder of her personal secretary Ximena Guzmán and advisor José Muñoz a “direct attack”. Brugada said in a statement that the attack had taken place in the Moderna district.
The authorities were investigating the reason and checked images of the surveillance camera to identify the attackers, she said in a statement.
“There will be no impunity. The officials will be arrested and will have to face justice,” added Brugada.
Brugada occupies the second most powerful political post in the country to President Claudia Sheinbaum, and they are allies of the Morena party.
Mexico City Police Manager Omar García Harfuch said in an article on social networks: “We are deeply regretting the loss of our colleagues … We will not allow this loose attack to remain unpunished.”
Harfuch himself was the target of a previous assassination attempt in 2020, when men armed with the new generation of Jalisco’s new generation set an ambush to his car in the center of the city. He has been shot three times; Three people were killed.
This attack took place on one of the most upscale sections of Avenida Paseo de La Reforma, a boulevard of 9 miles that cuts diagonally through the capital of the second economy of Latin America.
During his daily press conference, Sheinbaum – who was mayor of Mexico City before winning the presidency last year – said that people thought that responsible for their murders was driving on a motorcycle.
“It is a deplorable incident and we will provide all the support that the mayor may need,” added the president.
Mexican politicians and their assistants have often been targeted by factions of organized crime, but such incidents are relatively rare in the capital, which has remained relatively calmer than many regions of the country.
