Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz were attacked by a gunman On the road of Tlalpanwhen she picked her partner in a private car in the middle of a peak.
Both militated in the president’s left party Claudia Sheinbaum, Brunettewhich also governs the megaurbe of 9.2 million inhabitants.
The mayor of the capital, Clara Brugadasaid in a statement that officials were victims of a “direct aggression“
He added that the authorities are investigating the mobile of the crime and review surveillance cameras to identify those responsible, who were traveling on a motorcycle.
According to a video of those cameras, a man dressed in white shoot at the windshield of the vehicle that was driving Guzmánwho waited for the advisor parked next to the avenue that connects the center with the south of the city.
Then the attacker shoots against Muñozwho was about to get on the vehicle and was lying on the ground, and opens fire again against the driver’s window. After the attack, the gun runs run away.
In a brief press conference, Brugada He regretted the attack and paid tribute to the advisor and his secretary, whom he defined as “a wonderful, tireless woman.”
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The investigations are in charge of the Ministry of Citizen Security and the Local Prosecutor’s Office, which did not specify the age of the deceased.
Generalized condemnation
The President Sheinbaumwho also ruled the city between 2018 and 2023, expressed their condolences and said the victims worked in their political movement “for a long time.”
Brugadameanwhile, guaranteed that his government will maintain a “relentless struggle against insecurity.” The metropolis is one of the 2026 World Cup headquarters, which will organize Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Several government officials of Mexico City They condemned the double homicide.
“There will be no impunity,” he warned in the social network X Pablo Vázquez, Secretary of Public Security of the Mayor’s Office.
Those responsible for the 16 districts in which the capital is divided also expressed their condolences.
“We add all our efforts in coordination with all levels of government so that this fact is not unpunished,” they said in a statement.
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Other attacks
Mexico City It usually remains oblivious to criminal violence that hitting other regions of the country.
In April, the capital registered 78 victims of intelligible homicidewell below the 195 that Guanajuato had, one of the most beaten states by drug trafficking bands, according to official figures.
The case of more recent violence that involved a capital official occurred in July 2024when the Chief of Special Operations of the Police of Mexico City, Milton Figueroahe was killed in a suburb of the capital.
Figueroa It was the right hand of the City Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, who now serves in the Sheinbaum government after advising several blows to the capital mafias.
The own Harfuch It was injured in a bullet attack in June 2020 in an exclusive sector in Mexico City, in which some 30 hitmen from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The armored truck where I was traveling Harfuch He suffered multiple shots, in a fact in which two of his escorts and a passerby died.