The mayor of Ayotoxco, Alicia Guerrero, was shot at on Tuesday on a federal highway in the state of Tlaxcala while on her way to a meeting at the Senate of the Republic. According to initial reports, the mayor was unharmed, while her driver was shot twice, and the vehicle had 10 bullet impacts. The incident occurred around 4:30 local time on a federal highway near the toll booth in Cuapiaxtla, Tlaxcala, where the crew managed to arrive to ask for help. Authorities from neighboring Puebla were the first to arrive at the scene to secure the area and assist the victims. The Secretary of Security of Puebla, Francisco Sánchez González, confirmed that after the attack, a joint operation was deployed with the National Guard, as it is a federal area. According to the official, the attack could be related to a robbery, as an armed robbery had previously been reported on the same stretch of road. 'Hours earlier, an armed robbery had been committed by a gang of robbers on that same stretch,' he told local media. The investigation is being handled by the Prosecutor's Office of Tlaxcala, which as of Tuesday afternoon had not provided further details about the attack. This armed attack occurs in a climate of persistent violence against officials in Mexico, following the shooting last Wednesday against two deputies from the Citizen Movement in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa. It also comes three months after the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, in Michoacán, a crime that shocked the country with the level of violence on the streets. According to the organization Data Cívica in its study 'Voting Among Bullets', a report on aggression to understand political-criminal violence in the country, 'municipal power is the most vulnerable link in the face of the territorial control of organized crime' and almost 80% of the victims of political-criminal violence in Mexico are concentrated at this level.