One year after Uruapan mayor's assassination, Mayor Grecia Quiroz faces high security, political fractures, and rising violence

The assassination and subsequent political infighting have left Uruapan residents facing increased extortion and rising violence, with 17 homicides documented in October alone, prompting the deployment of 200 additional law enforcement agents.

• •Authorities have arrested 34 people in connection with the assassination of former Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo.
• •Those arrested include seven of Manzo's bodyguards, members of his government accused of leaking his movements, his own godson, and the city's current secretary of Welfare.
• •Federal and state authorities attribute Manzo's assassination to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
• •State authorities deployed 200 additional law enforcement agents to Uruapan to reinforce security following a recent spike in violence.
• •In October, state authorities documented 17 homicides, eight injuries by gunfire, four attacks against businesses and residences, and a series of robberies in Uruapan.
• •Mayor Grecia Quiroz is escorted 24 hours a day by 60 federal government-assigned bodyguards.
• •According to an Associated Press count, at least 13 mayors have been assassinated across Mexico since President Claudia Sheinbaum took office two years prior.
• •Juan Manzo, the slain mayor's brother, has accused Mayor Quiroz of covering up individuals responsible for the homicide.
• •Local merchants report that local mafia extortions have increased since Carlos Manzo was killed.