EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) -- The president of Mexico this week responded to the assassination of a mayor by announcing a plan aimed at addressing the root causes of violence.

The "Michoacan Plan for Peace and Justice" comes on the heels of the assassination of Carlos Alberto Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, which is the second biggest city in the state of Michoacan. He was gunned down Saturday night at a Day of the Dead festival.

On Thursday, Mexican authorities identified the gunman as a 17-year-old meth addict named Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, who was killed by Manzo's security detail.

Manzo's death marks the seventh mayoral assassination in three years in that state alone, and it underscores some of Mexico's most pressing issues: cartel violence and drug trafficking.

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