Secretary and mayor of the city

The authorities said that the personal secretary and adviser to the mayor of Mexico City was killed by gunmen on a motorcycle in a central neighborhood in the capital on Tuesday.

Mayor Clara Brujada is the second most powerful political position in the country for President Claudia Shinbom, who are allies in the Mourina party.

Borujada said in a statement Her secretary Ximena Guzmán and her advisor Jose Monuz were killed in the Moderna neighborhood. Borujada described the killing as a “direct attack.”

Borujada said the authorities were investigating the motivation and checking the surveillance camera footage to identify the attackers. Pictures from the scene showed that police officers inspected a car that appears to have multiple bullet holes in the windshield.

“There will be no impunity. Officials will be arrested and they must confront justice,” Borujada said in its statement.

Shinbom expressed her regret of the murder and said during her morning press briefing that there would be no impunity. Shinbum served as the mayor of Mexico City before winning the presidency last year.

In 2020, gunmen from Gilgsco new generation Cartel He tried to kill the police chief in Shinbom at the time in an amazing ambush on a central street. He was wounded and killed three people.

The shooting was revealed on Tuesday, a few hours after the gunmen opened fire Seven people were killedIncluding some minors, in Guanjato, Mexico.

While Mexican politicians and their assistants, especially at the local level, are often preoccupied with a crime related to gangs, such killing in the streets of the capital is relatively rare.

But politicians often target elsewhere in Mexico.

Only last week, he was a mayor and three of her supporters Shot At a campaign event in the Eastern Mexican Veracrose state. This attack came two days after Cecilia Rovkapa, a member of a council in the western state of Galisco in Mexico, in a hospital.

In April, Jose Luis Pereira, a senior member of the Tukalach city government, was Firing While eating in a restaurant in Gallisco.

In December 2024, he was a member of the Mexican Congress who was a member of the ruling coalition Shot In Ferkrose.

About two months ago, the mayor was Murder In the southern state of Guerrero. He was the former public prosecutor and the local police official at a later time Arrest With regard to killing.

In June 2024, a Murder In southern Mexico, less than a week was assassinated from another politician in the same region.

In the same month, local Council member She was shot while she was leaving her house in Guerro. Her death came a few days after the mayor of a town in West Mexico and her bodyguard Killed out of the gymJust hours after the election of Shinbaum president.

Agence France-Press contributed to this report.