Overview
- Residents armed with machetes and sticks chased Mayor Alfonso Lino Pozos during a public works event in the Maloapan community, and his team helped him flee.
- Video shared on social media shows an angry crowd trying to seize the mayor as smoke and small fires burned near official vehicles.
- Pozos called the attack an attempted homicide and urged urgent legal action from state and federal authorities, also pressing the Puebla Congress to act.
- Local outlets report the flashpoint is a years-long fight over which municipality Maloapan belongs to after a 2020 land registry ruling placed it under Hueyapan instead of Atempan.
- Officials warn the unresolved dispute puts residents, including indigenous communities, at risk, and no arrests or formal government response were reported in the latest accounts.