Mexico: Mayor of Western Town Is Murdered

The acting mayor of a western town was found murdered Monday along another man. It was the fifth killing of a mayor in Mexico in six weeks and the 11th this year. Gustavo Sánchez Cervantes, a teacher, took over as the mayor of Tancítaro, in the state of Michoacán, last December after the elected mayor and the City Council resigned, arguing that pressure from organized crime made it impossible to ...