Federal Public Safety Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said four mayors requested protection on Monday, a day after Arcos' remains were found. The requests came from Guerrero and another violence-plagued state, Guanajuato. The situation in Guanajuato is so bad that ahead of the country's June elections, at least four mayoral candidates were killed.

Officials say four mayors in Mexico have asked federal authorities for protection after a colleague was beheaded last week in the southern state of Guerrero.

Alexander Arcos was killed on Sunday, just six days after he was elected the mayor of Chilpancingo, a city around 170 miles south of Mexico City with a population of around 280,000. Officials confirmed the murder from the gory photos of his decapitated head,

The wave of killings includes murders in Guanajuato and Sinaloa, as well as the assassination of a mayor and his secretary.

President Claudia Sheinbaum called for increased intelligence to curb the violent crime that gripped Mexico under her predecessor, who oversaw one of the deadliest periods in the country’s recent history.

So far this year, from January to August, homicides were down 10.7% from their peak in the same period of 2018, but that year was an outlier because of cartel turf battles. The 20

The past year has been “all about artificial intelligence,” Foxconn chairman Young Liu said in a pre-recorded opening speec

Foxconn is building in Mexico the world's largest manufacturing facility for bundling Nvidia's GB200 superchips, a key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform,

Eyewitness video showed waves barrelling ashore and crashing into Mexico's Celestun beach as Hurricane Milton swept over the Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 7.

Hurricane Milton remained offshore on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula early Tuesday. (AP video by Martín Zetina) Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.