Mayor is found decapitated with his severed head placed on top of his car six days after taking office

A politician has been decapitated little than a week aft helium took bureau successful the southwestern Mexico authorities of Guerrero.

Alejandro Arcos was recovered dormant wrong a pickup motortruck successful the municipality of Chilpancingo connected Sunday afternoon.

Disturbing photos connected societal media showed Arco's severed caput lying connected apical of the vehicle.

The-43-year-old's execution came arsenic Chilpancingo was inactive reeling from past Thursday's sidesplitting of its recently appointed metropolis assembly secretary.

'They person murdered our politician of Chilpancingo, Alejandro Arcos, and conscionable 3 days agone the caput of this aforesaid City Council, Francisco Tapia,' Alejandro Moreno, the nationalist person of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, wrote connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.

Moreno said some men were 'young and honorable officials who sought advancement for their community.'

Just hours earlier his death, Arcos visited the Chilpancingo neighborhoods of Plan de Ayala and Yerbabuena and met with residents whose homes were damaged by the passing of the Hurricane John 2 weeks ago.

'Our precedence is to support those surviving successful susceptible areas and guarantee that the indispensable measures are taken,' helium wrote connected Facebook. 'My committedness is clear: we volition proceed moving manus successful manus with nine to reestablish basal services successful the affected neighborhoods. Together we volition get ahead.'

On Friday, Arcos appeared connected Radio Formula and told seasoned writer Ciro Gómez Leyva to telephone connected the national authorities to summation the beingness of information forces successful Chilpancingo and grow extortion for metropolis authorities staffers aft Tapia's murder.

'We volition proceed working, we volition proceed warring for our community,' Arcos said. 'We person ever talked astir a bid project, it has been our banner, our connection and that is what we aspire to. We are not radical of conflict.'

Under Article 24 of the Law connected Electoral Institutions and Procedures of the State of Guerrero, the duties of politician volition autumn connected Gustavo Alarcón, a surgeon, who was appointed arsenic the alternate campaigner by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Alarcón, who ran for politician successful 2021 nether the National Action Party, has not stated whether helium volition judge the post.

Arcos ran nether a conjugation summons that included the Institutional Revolutionary Party, National Action Party and the Party of the Democratic Revolution and vowed not to participate into agreements with transgression organizations, a changeable astatine his eventual predecessor, who was filmed successful an alleged gathering with Celso Ortega, the person of the Ardillos cause gang, which has feuded with its rival Tlacos.

Three videos leaked successful July and August 2023 showed erstwhile Mayor Hernández sitting crossed from Ortega astatine a restaurant. 

She was expelled from the ruling Morena enactment successful past month, conscionable 3 weeks earlier her word came to an end.

Also successful July 2023, national officials said a objection held by hundreds of radical successful Chilpancingo that period had been organized by the Ardillos pack to triumph the merchandise of 2 pack leaders arrested for drugs and weapons possession.

The demonstrators mostly blocked each postulation connected the road betwixt Mexico City and Acapulco for 2 days, battled information forces and commandeered a constabulary armored motortruck and utilized it to ram down the gates of the authorities legislature building.

The demonstrators abducted 10 members of the authorities constabulary and National Guard, arsenic good arsenic 3 authorities and national officials, and held them hostage to enforce their demands earlier releasing them.