The gruesome killing represents yet another challenge for the country’s new president, who faces increasing pressure to show progress in the fight against violent cartels.

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico has been murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on politicians in the violence-plagued Latin American country.

A mayor has been decapitated less than a week after he took office in the southwestern Mexico state of Guerrero. Alejandro Arcos was found dead inside a pickup truck in the municipality of Chilpancingo on Sunday afternoon.

A MEXICAN mayor was beheaded just six days after taking office with his severed head displayed on a car roof. The gruesome cartel assassination left the rest of his decapitated body in the

The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by gang violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office. Photos circulating online among locals showed what appeared to be Alejandro Arcos’s severed head on top of a Volkswagen pick-up truck and the rest of his body inside a car in the Villas del Roble neighbourhood,

The mayor of a Mexican city has been murdered just days after taking office, officials have said. Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, a southwestern city which is the capital of Guerrero state,