メキシコ：村役場で村長さんが襲撃され、死亡

　銃で武装した4人の男たちが村役場に押し入ってきて、銃撃。

BBC Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot mayor dead 1 day ago
Vanessa Buschschlüter

　メキシコじゃそういう事件は珍しくない―とはいえ、village hallと明記されるレベルの村長さんを―というのは、ちょっとなあ、ひどい。

「Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials.

Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez.」

　この彼女はOaxaca州で今年、殺害された町長村長としては二人目。

「García Soto is the second mayor to be killed in Oaxaca state this year. In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.」

「Most of the attacks happened in small towns where organised crime groups are particularly strong, but last month two top aides of the mayor of Mexico City were shot dead in the capital in an escalation of violence which shocked the country.」

　ここ最近、こうしたmayorたちへの攻撃が激しくなっているようで。地方自治体レベルでギャング団に乗っ取られていくような、そんな危機が進展しているのかもしれない。