Police officers discovered the body of Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco, 45, riddled with bullet holes in the cab’s driver’s seat, just outside his hometown of Xaltianguis in the southern state of Guerrero.
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At least 15 people have been killed during the weekend in the Mexican state of Guerrero, including an activist who helped lead efforts to find 43 students who disappeared and were presumed murdered in 2014, officials have said.
Parents of the missing students have continued protests for months.
The leader of a group searching for 43 missing students in Mexico has been killed near the resort town of Acapulco, authorities said.
So far, only the remains of one student have been found.
“A automotive had been following [Jimenez] since final Thursday”, one other member of the group police who labored with Jimenez informed The Occasions in a phone interview. Greater than 20,000 individuals are lacking throughout the entire of the nation.
Guerrero is a region plagued by gang and drug violence.
“We have been saying from the start that this area is a cemetery”, Jimenez told the BBC in an interview before his death.
Jimenez, an outspoken critic of the federal government, spearheaded a gaggle of tons of of individuals in Guerrero whose family members are lacking, or “disappeared”. Faced by what they felt was authorities’ indifference and lack of action, they began digging in the dry, dusty hills looking for bodies and clues.
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Asked if Jimenez’s death would affect the future of the search parties in the hills, now on hold during the rainy season, Vergara replied: “They’ve killed Miguel – we don’t know why, maybe because of the searches, as we were putting the heat on the government”.
