Newly Elected Mayor In Mexican City Murdered

Mayor Gisela Mota, 33, was murdered by four gunmen in her home in the city of Temixco, Morelos, on Saturday.

When elected officials in Mexico are not killed, does it mean they are working with or looking the other way when drug cartels operate in their city or state?

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The mayor of a city south of Mexico's capital was shot to death on Saturday, less than a day after taking office, officials said.
Four gunmen burst into the house of Mayor Gisela Mota, 33, in the city of Temixco - which is in disputed drug territory about 60 miles south of Mexico City - and killed her, said the government of Morelos state, where Temixco is located.
Local police later arrested two alleged attackers, while killing two others, according to a statement issued by the Morelos attorney general's office. The alleged attackers have not been named.
Several mayors were killed last year in Mexico, where armed gangs financed by the drugs trade control many local communities.
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Temixco is in disputed drug territory that more than one cartel has activity in, but its state of Morelos shares a border with drug cartel-plagued Guerrero state.
Officials attributed her killing to organized crime.
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Though Cuernavaca is the state capital of Morelos, Temixco is the seat of several state institutions including the Public Security Commission, which coordinates state and local police forces.
Mota's leftist Democratic Revolution Party released a statement describing her as 'a strong and brave woman who on taking office as mayor, declared that her fight against crime would be frontal and direct'.
Mota, who had been a federal congresswoman, was sworn into office on New Year's Day. She was killed the following day.
Mota is not the first mayor and government workers to be killed allegedly by organized crime.
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In March, the body of mayoral candidate AidéNava González was found on the outskirts of Oxtotitlan, the town she was hoping to represent.
Her head was decapitated and 'narcomanta' was written on a sheet covering her body, which was a drug gang message, according to the New York Daily News.
Her husband - a former mayor - had been murdered and her son abducted by criminal gangs, according to The Telegraph. Her son, who was abducted in 2014, was never found.
Jerecuaro's mayor-elect was killed in the state of Guanajuato in June of last year.

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Mexican mayor is murdered in her home by four gunmen just one day after taking office
Mayor Gisela Mota, 33, was murdered by four gunmen in her home in the city of Temixco, Morelos, on Saturday
Temixco is in disputed drug territory about 60 miles south of Mexico City
Morelos shares a border with drug cartel-plagued Guerrero state
Mota, of the Democratic Revolution Party, took office on New Year's Day
Several mayors were killed last year in Mexico, where armed gangs financed by the drugs trade control many local communities
Mexican officials have attributed Mota's murder to organized crime
By Kelly Mclaughlin For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Daily Mail (UK)
Published: 20:09 EST, 2 January 2016 | Updated: 06:26 EST, 3 January 2016