{"id":7212,"date":"2025-05-20T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/mexico-city-mayors-personal-secretary-and-adviser-shot-dead-in-the-street-by-gunmen-on-motorcycle\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:04:45","slug":"mexico-city-mayors-personal-secretary-and-adviser-shot-dead-in-the-street-by-gunmen-on-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/mexico-city-mayors-personal-secretary-and-adviser-shot-dead-in-the-street-by-gunmen-on-motorcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City mayor’s personal secretary and adviser shot dead in the street by gunmen on motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City’s mayor were killed by gunmen on a motorcycle in a central neighborhood of the capital Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Clara Brugada holds the second most powerful political post in the country to President Claudia Sheinbaum, and they are allies in the Morena party.<\/p>\n

Brugada said in a statement<\/a> that her secretary Ximena Guzm\u00e1n and adviser Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz were killed in the Moderna neighborhood. Brugada called the killings a “direct attack.” <\/p>\n

Authorities were investigating the motive and checking surveillance camera footage to identify the attackers, Brugada said. Photos from the scene showed police officers inspecting a car that appeared to have multiple bullet holes in the windshield.<\/p>\n

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Police officers stand guard near the crime scene of the killing of Jose Munoz and Ximena Guzman in Mexico city on May 20, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“There will be no impunity. Those responsible will be arrested and must face justice,” Brugada said in her statement.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum lamented the killings and said during her morning press briefing that there would not be impunity. Sheinbaum served as Mexico City’s mayor prior to winning the presidency last year.<\/p>\n

In 2020, gunmen from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel<\/a><\/span> attempted to kill Sheinbaum’s then police chief in a spectacular ambush on a central boulevard. He was wounded and three people were killed.<\/p>\n

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Claudia Sheinbaum (left), president of Mexico, and Clara Brugada (right), mayor of Mexico City, attend the reopening of the modernization of the stations on Line 1 of the Cuauhtemoc-Chapultepec Metro Collective Transportation System in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 23, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tuesday’s shooting unfolded just hours after gunmen opened fire and killed seven people<\/a><\/span>, including some minors, in Guanajuato, Mexico.<\/p>\n

While Mexican politicians and their aides, particularly at the local level, often get caught up in gang-related crime, such murders on the streets of the capital are relatively rare.<\/p>\n

But politicians are frequently targeted elsewhere in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Just last week, a mayoral candidate and three of her supporters were shot dead<\/a><\/span> at a campaign event in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. That\u00a0 attack came two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, a councilmember in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco, was gunned down in a hospital. <\/p>\n

In April, Jose Luis Pereira, a senior member of the Teocaltiche city government, was\u00a0shot and killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0while dining at a restaurant in Jalisco.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, a Mexican congressman who was a member of the ruling coalition was\u00a0shot dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Veracruz.<\/p>\n

About two months before that, a mayor was\u00a0murdered and decapitated<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the southern state of Guerrero. A former prosecutor and local police official was later\u00a0arrested<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in connection with the killing.<\/p>\n

In June 2024, a\u00a0mayor was killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in southern Mexico, less than a week after another politician was assassinated in the same region.<\/p>\n

That same month, a local\u00a0councilwoman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was gunned down as she was leaving her home in Guerrero. Her murder came a few days after the mayor of a town in western Mexico and her bodyguard were\u00a0killed outside of a gym<\/a><\/span>, just hours after Sheinbaum was elected president.<\/p>\n

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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