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By Yucatan Times on December 22, 2020
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A former mayor from northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state has been arrested for “complicity” in the 2017 murder of journalist Miroslava Breach, authorities have said.
A Chihuahua court “has succeeded in establishing the probable responsibility” of Hugo Amed Shultz, former mayor of Chinipas, for having “sought and provided information to an organised crime group which ordered and carried out the murder,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement without providing further details on Thursday.
Mexico is regularly rated by journalism watchdog Reporters Without Borders as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.
This 2012 photo shows Aristoteles Sandoval, the future governor of Jalisco, Mexico, in Guadalajara, Mexico, ahead of a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. (Image via Courthouse News)
MEXICO CITY (AFP) The former governor of western Jalisco state one of the most violent in Mexico was murdered on Friday, the regional government said.
Aristoteles Sandoval was “the victim of an attack” in the popular tourist destination Puerto Vallarta, the Jalisco government said on Twitter.
“I’m very sorry about the murder of the former Jalisco governor … It’s a matter that will be investigated to discover the cause, the motive and to punish the perpetrators,” said Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.