The gruesome killing represents yet another challenge for the country’s new president, who faces increasing pressure to show ...

The mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico has been killed just one week after he took office, officials said Sunday.

Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, a city so violent that a drug gang openly staged a ...

Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, will present a national security plan on Tuesday aimed at combating around 30,000 ...

Police and Mexico's National guard filled the streets of Chilpancingo in Guerrero state Sunday after the Mayor was killed ...

The decapitated head of a mayor in Mexico was found atop his car just six days into his tenure, marking the second official ...

The decapitation of the mayor of a major Mexican city is a reminder of the security task President Sheinbaum faces.

Chilpancingo's newly elected leader was killed just six days after he took office, exposing the dire security situation in ...

The wave of killings includes murders in Guanajuato and Sinaloa, as well as the assassination of a mayor and his secretary.

who formerly served as Mexico City's police chief. Sheinbaum faces an ongoing problem, as illustrated by the killing last ...

Mayor Alejandro Arcos Catalan, who had just taken office the same day as Sheinbaum, was found murdered brutally Sunday.