• VENDORS: Two teenagers, ages 16 and 13, were found shot to death Sunday in an abandoned car in the Cocula municipality (pop. 14,700) of the southwestern state of Guerrero is prompting local authorities to suspend classes from elementary to high school.
• POLICE: State authorities said Monday eight suspects were arrested in connection with the two teenagers’ murder. The Cocula municipality has no police force since many members of it were arrested after the disappearance of 43 university students in 2016.
• POVERTY: “They killed them, that’s not fair…We are very poor and that’s why they were working”, said Vicenta Bahena, mother of the two minors found dead, who explained that in addition to attending school, both teens worked selling food to those driving by the local highway.
• GUERRERO: Despite having some of the cities with the highest rate of homicides in Mexico like Acapulco or Zihuatanejo, murders in the state of Guerrero (pop. 3.5 million) have fallen from 2,213 in 2016 to 1,583 in 2019, according to data from Mexico’s public security system.
