{"id":204581,"date":"2025-11-02T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=204581"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:22:14","slug":"mexican-mayor-known-for-anti-drug-efforts-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/204581\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican mayor known for anti-drug efforts assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Carlos Manzo, Municipal President of Mexico&rsquo;s Uruapan, was assassinated during a public celebration, <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/mexico\/2025-11-02\/carlos-manzo-el-alcalde-sin-miedo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Pa&iacute;s<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Unidentified assailants opened fire on the official&rsquo;s motorcade, killing him at the scene. A city council member and the mayor&rsquo;s bodyguard were also wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to official reports, one of the attackers was killed, and two others have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Manzo was known as an outspoken opponent of drug cartels and had repeatedly appealed to Mexico&rsquo;s federal government for help in restoring order in the city.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Manzo, Municipal President of Mexico&rsquo;s Uruapan, was assassinated during a public celebration, El Pa&iacute;s reports. Unidentified assailants opened fire on the official&rsquo;s motorcade, killing him at the scene. A city council member and the mayor&rsquo;s bodyguard were also wounded in the attack. According to official reports, one of the attackers was killed, and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":204188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204582,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204581\/revisions\/204582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}