On Saturday, during a traditional Day of the Dead celebration, Mexico’s cartels sent yet another clear and chilling message: We can and will act with total impunity as we settle scores with our enemies. This time, their victim was Carlos Manzo Rodríguez, the mayor of Uruapan — the second-largest city in Michoacán state and one of the most dangerous in Mexico. Just minutes before being gunned down, Manzo was walking with his son in his arms through the Festival of Lights in the city’s central plaza.

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