Sheinbaum confirmed this Wednesday that Grecia Quiroz, widow of Mayor Carlos Manzo, murdered on November 1 after a public event, will be the new municipal president of Uruapan, Michoacán.
“Today (Quiroz) will take office in the State Congress and we agreed to continue in communication to support the municipality of Uruapan in this general framework of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice,” said the president during her morning press conference.
Sheinbaum said that he met with Quiroz, with the brother of the murdered mayor and his close collaborators, to whom he expressed his solidarity and listened to their demands for justice.
“Yesterday I also received Carlos Manzo’s wife and his brother and a close team. We talked, the Secretary of Security and Lázaro Cárdenas were present and we talked, obviously, because they rightly demand justice and that this investigation be reached to the end and that justice be done for the murder,” he said.
He reported that his government works in coordination with the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedoya, to advance the Plan for Peace and Justice, after the murder of Manzo
“This morning Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedoya was here in the security cabinet. In addition, we talked about specific issues with specific information about Michoacán and strategies for security in the state, about the Michoacán Plan for peace and justice. We are obviously going to work on it together,” he said.
Sheinbaum explained that he held a meeting with his entire cabinet to assign specific tasks and advance the development of the plan.
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“Yesterday I had a meeting with the entire cabinet to be able to distribute tasks for this plan, and the different secretaries or general directors are going to make this consultation with different sectors of Michoacán society to be able to have a first draft this Friday afternoon and be able to present it no later than next week,” he explained.
The murder of Manzo after a public Day of the Dead event in Uruapan on November 1 has generated strong indignation in Michoacán, where protests and clashes have been reported between protesters and police forces.
According to authorities, one of the alleged attackers was killed after the attack and two people were arrested for their alleged participation in the crime.
On Sunday morning, the government assured that Manzo had federal and municipal protection since 2024, which was reinforced at the beginning of 2025.
On Tuesday, the federal government announced the additional deployment of security forces and the creation of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, a comprehensive strategy that seeks to strengthen security, justice and development in the region.
Authorities have identified that, in Uruapan, a town of more than 300,000 inhabitants, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Los Caballeros Templarios, Los Viagras, Pueblos Unidos and Los Blancos de Troya operate.
Just last October 8, Manzo called on the head of the SSPC and Sheinbaum not to withdraw the National Guard from the municipality, since the agents had only been in the area for a few days.
With information from EFE
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