A mayor in Mexico ’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said. The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, was gunned down Saturday night in the town’s historic center. He was rushed to a hospital, where he later died, according to state prosecutor Carlos Torres Piña.

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A local drug gang had reportedly threatened him because he refused to turn over part of the city budget as a protection payment

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Mexican mayor assassinated: Mayor Carlos Manzo who spoke against drug gangs killed

Mexican mayor Ambrosio?Soto shot to death, second mayor dead in two days