Overview
- The mayor of San Miguel Amatitlán, Joel Ángel Bravo Martínez, was shot dead outside his home, a killing confirmed by the Oaxaca State Prosecutor's Office and followed by a tactical security deployment.
- A federal police officer, Rodolfo Manfredi, was killed and a colleague seriously wounded during an identification operation in Rosario, where authorities have carried out dozens of raids and detained multiple suspects while seizing weapons and drugs.
- The Fiscalía de Oaxaca reported the capture of a person identified as the probable material author of an earlier armed attack on Miahuatlán mayor César Figueroa, and said investigators are working to locate other participants and possible intellectual authors.
- In Lima, an armed gang opened fire inside La Victoria’s Mercado de Frutas, prompting a police operation that left one suspect dead, two wounded and three in custody with firearms, motorcycles and phones taken as evidence.
- Police in Barcelona and Santa Fe conducted coordinated saturation and micro‑trafficking operations that produced 13 detentions, multiple arrests, 83 packaged doses of cocaine and other drug paraphernalia, illustrating cross‑border patterns of small‑scale drug sales, territorial disputes and rapid multiagency responses.