The violence-plagued Jalisco municipality of Teocaltiche continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, with two senior municipal officials murdered in recent weeks.
Strategically located on the border between Jalisco and Zacatecas, the once-tranquil town has become a flashpoint in the ongoing turf war between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.
On May 9, Citizen Movement (MC) city councilor and former mayoral candidate Cecilia Ruvalcaba was shot to death in the municipality’s Community Hospital, where she worked as head nurse. According to reports, at least four armed men entered the facility, searched for Ruvalcaba, located her in the infirmary area, and shot her various times at close range.
Jalisco’s MC leadership expressed outrage over her killing, demanding a swift investigation to apprehend those responsible. Governor Pablo Lemus called Ruvalcaba “an exemplary woman who dedicated her life to caring for others.”
State authorities reported that Ruvalcaba had not mentioned receiving any threats prior to her death.
Just 11 days earlier, on April 28, José Luis Pereida Robles—the current secretary of the municipal government and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)—was shot dead by a lone gunman while dining at a seafood restaurant.
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