{"id":61919,"date":"2019-05-23T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61919"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:01:14","slug":"9-die-in-western-mexico-shootout-official-slain-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/9-die-in-western-mexico-shootout-official-slain-in-south\/","title":{"rendered":"9 die in western Mexico shootout, official slain in south"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A shootout between rival gangs in western Mexico killed at least nine people and wounded four, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors in the state of Michoacan said the confrontation occurred near the city of Uruapan. They did not identify the gangs involved, but the Jalisco cartel and a small gang known as the Viagras have been active in the state.     <br>\nAssault rifles were found at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also Wednesday, authorities said gunmen killed a city official in the southern state of Guerrero.The state prosecutors\u2019 office said in a statement that Sim\u00f3n Gama Garc\u00eda was exercising Wednesday morning when two people approached and shot him. He was identified as secretary-general of the town of Coyuca de Catalan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors released an image showing forensic investigators examining the scene with evidence markers on the ground near a bicycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Killings of Mexican political officials rose in 2018, an election year, and then tapered off, but are still not uncommon. On April 25 a mayor and two others were slain in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The previous day a mayor was kidnapped and killed in Michoacan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shootout between rival gangs in western Mexico killed at least nine people and wounded four, authorities said Wednesday. Prosecutors in the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61921,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61919\/revisions\/61921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}