Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa, mayor of the Mexican municipality of Cotija, was fatally shot hours after the country elected its first female President, Claudia Sheinbaum. Figueroa, accompanied by her bodyguard, was returning home from a gym when assailants in a white van opened fire. Separately, a mayoral candidate in Mexico, identified as Alfredo Cabrera, was recently shot dead at campaign rally.