Mexican mayor found decapitated after just 6 days in office

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Mexico’s brutal crime wave continues as numerous high-ranking officials and civic servants have been found dead. This one in particular is just horrendous.

The decapitated head of a mayor in Mexico was found atop his car just six days into his tenure, marking the second official to be murdered in Guerrero’s capital in less than a week.

The body of Alejandro Arcos, the 43-year-old mayor of the city of Chilpancingo, was found inside his pickup truck Sunday night while his head was propped on top of the vehicle.

The Guerrero attorney general is investigating the crime, though in a region controlled almost entirely by cartels, don’t expect them to find anything.

Chilpancingo “is still reeling from the murder of a new government secretary, Francisco Tapia, who was shot and killed last week,” while “at least six candidates for public offices were killed in Guerrero leading up to Mexico’s June elections.”

I found this interesting:

The city’s previous mayor, Norma Otilia Hernández, was videotaped allegedly holding a meeting with leaders of the gangs at a restaurant. She was subsequently expelled from her party, which gave Arcos the opening to run.

This area is dominated by violence from two rival drug gangs, the Ardillos and the Tlacos, so violence like this is bound to occur.