{"id":517243,"date":"2026-07-23T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/?p=517243"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:22:05","slug":"more-than-120-mexican-mayors-killed-over-the-past-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/more-than-120-mexican-mayors-killed-over-the-past-26-years\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 120 Mexican mayors killed over the past 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fatal shooting of Temoac Mayor <strong>Valent\u00edn Lav\u00edn Romero<\/strong> on Wednesday has once again highlighted the deadly violence targeting local government officials in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Mexican media reports, at least <strong>122 mayors have been killed over the past 26 years<\/strong>, averaging nearly five municipal leaders every year, or one every 76 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lav\u00edn was shot and killed inside Temoac City Hall in the state of Morelos. His death brings the number of mayors killed during President <strong>Claudia Sheinbaum\u2019s<\/strong> administration to <strong>14<\/strong>, including three in 2024, eight in 2025, and three so far in 2026, according to Uno TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The growing toll has raised concerns because Sheinbaum still has four years remaining in her six-year term. The deadliest administration for Mexican mayors was that of former President <strong>Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto<\/strong>, during which <strong>42 mayors were killed<\/strong>, followed by <strong>Felipe Calder\u00f3n<\/strong> with <strong>37<\/strong> and <strong>Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador<\/strong> with <strong>26<\/strong>, according to data cited by <em>El Universal<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fatal shooting of Temoac Mayor Valent\u00edn Lav\u00edn Romero on Wednesday has once again highlighted the deadly violence targeting local government officials in Mexico. According to Mexican media reports, at least 122 mayors have been killed over the past 26 years, averaging nearly five municipal leaders every year, or one every 76 days. Lav\u00edn was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":517244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2ayD","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_3221.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_3221.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}