Senator Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas of the Citizen Movement Movement announced that he will request a report from the National Guard to clarify the withdrawal of 200 of its elements from Uruapan, Michoacán, reported on October 8 by mayor Carlos Manzo, who was assassinated on November 1. The legislator detailed that from the Senate, progress will be made in three directions. "First, we will request a report from the National Guard to explain and justify the withdrawal of its elements from Uruapan on October 8." Additionally, he said that the Citizen Movement caucus will promote the creation of a Commission to follow up on actions aimed at protecting mayors, public servants, and political actors from the violence of organized crime. Likewise, he indicated that they will seek to increase the budget to strengthen the state of force and the institutional capabilities of State and Municipal Police, as well as increase the resources of ISFAS and Fortamun. As a third point, he said, they will work on a package of reforms "to strengthen security from the local level, guaranteeing labor rights, training, and real protection for municipal and state police, and strengthening local prosecutors to improve their efficiency, professionalizing investigations, and expanding assistance to victims." Colosio Riojas emphasized that the State must arrive in time to not abandon any authority or citizenhood again in the face of crime. "Mexico demands empathy from us, Mexico demands protection from us, Mexico demands justice, and that justice begins when the State arrives in time and again occupies the place it should never have abandoned, that the brave are not left alone, and that raising one's voice does not cost one's life." Regarding the assassination of Uruapan's mayor, Carlos Manzo, Colosio Riojas affirmed that his memory must be honored through a firm, integral, and lasting state response that returns Michoacán the security it has been denied for years. "That justice will not arrive if we continue to blame the past; in the exercise of good government, there may be things that are not our fault, but all are our responsibility." Three weeks before being the victim of an armed attack — on November 1 during the Candle Festival — Uruapan's mayor, Michoacán, Carlos Manzo Rodríguez, made a public call for help to the Federal Government due to the withdrawal of National Guard elements in the municipality. In a message disseminated on October 8 on his social networks, he informed that "the more than 200 elements that arrived a few days ago to reinforce operations in Uruapan by the National Guard were withdrawn from Uruapan." He warned that this decision left the city "in a vulnerable state before the illegal activities of organized crime".
