The wave of killings includes murders in Guanajuato and Sinaloa, as well as the assassination of a mayor and his secretary.

President Claudia Sheinbaum called for increased intelligence to curb the violent crime that gripped Mexico under her predecessor, who oversaw one of the deadliest periods in the country’s recent history.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed to mostly continue her predecessor's policies, one of which has been thrown into the spotlight early due to a military attack on a migrant caravan just after she took office.