The mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo. CREDIT: EPA/Shutterstock via BBC
Mexico said on Thursday it captured the alleged brains behind the assassination of a beloved hard-on-crime mayor last November in a killing that ignited international outrage.
Mexico’s Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch explained that the suspect was the leader of an armed group working for the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), saying he was the mastermind behind the killing of Carlos Manzo in November 2025.
Manzo was the mayor of Uruapan, a city at the heart of a prosperous agricultural area in the violent state of Michoacan.
Assassins killed him while he was on the street with his family for the traditional Day of the Dead ceremony.
