The Attorney General's Office of Oaxaca (FGEO) announced this Friday that it is working on two lines of investigation into yesterday's murder of municipal official Guadalupe Urban from San Juan Cacahuatepec, one of which points to a family dispute. In a press release, the Public Ministry stated that the crime could be related to the incursion of a criminal cell operating between Oaxaca and Guerrero into the area. Likewise, the FGEO is analyzing a 'dispute over real estate that the victim's family had' as a possible motive for the attack. The crime was perpetrated on Thursday morning when Urban was shot with a firearm as she was leaving her home. Her body was found dead on the road leading to the neighboring community of San Antonio Ocotlán, Cacahuatepec, the state Attorney General's Office reported. The Attorney General confirmed that 'preliminary examinations reveal that it was an armed aggression perpetrated from a motorcycle,' according to preliminary reports. In this way, the investigation work continues to clarify the reasons that led the perpetrators to take Urban's life. You may be interested > Mexico thwarts an assassination attempt against the Israeli ambassador. The official served as the citizens' representative for the Parks and Gardens area of the city council, a position she held in the current 2025-2027 municipal period. This murder adds to that of Israel Ramírez Peralta, municipal agent of Santa Catarina Juquila, in the community of San Marcos Zacatepec, also in Oaxaca, which occurred four days earlier. Furthermore, following the murder of Carlos Manzo, municipal mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, in the west of the country, after a Day of the Dead public event on November 1st, which has generated strong indignation in the state and the country, where protests and clashes between demonstrators and police forces have been registered. According to state records and reports, since October 1st, when Claudia Sheinbaum assumed the presidency of Mexico and until November 3rd, at least 10 mayors or municipal presidents have been murdered in the country.
Mexican Municipal Official Murdered, Family Dispute and Criminal Cell Activity Under Investigation
The Oaxaca Attorney General's Office investigates the murder of Guadalupe Urban. Main theories: a family dispute and the activity of a criminal cell. This is the tenth case of a mayor or municipal official being murdered in the country since October.