😢 « Gunmen have killed the female #mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation's first woman president.
Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of #Cotija, which she had governed since September 2021. She was the first woman to be elected to the post.
Widespread violence against politicians has overshadowed #Mexico's general election, which saw two women run for the presidency. »

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c166n3p6r49o

Mexico election: Mayor killed after first woman elected leader

The killing of Yolanda Sanchez comes just hours after a historic landslide victory for Mexico's first woman president.

^{Vanessa Buschschlüter (BBC News)}