# List of politicians killed during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador

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The following is a list of assassinations of politicians during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which started on 1 December 2018 and ended on 30 September 2024.
Assassinations of political candidates during the 2023-2024 election cycle can be found in List of politicians killed during the 2024 Mexican elections.

## 2018

| Name | Political affiliation | Date | Position | Notes |
| María Ascención Torres Cruz | MORENA | 29 December 2018 | Regidora-elect of Mazatepec, Morelos | Killed outside her home. |

## 2019

| Name | Political affiliation | Date | Position | Notes |
| Alejandro Aparicio Santiago | MORENA | 1 January 2019 | Municipal president of Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca | Killed while on his way to his first meeting as municipal president. |
| Cutberto Porcayo Sánchez | MORENA | 3 January 2019 | Former president of MORENA in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca. | While driving, was attacked by armed assailants. After being shot, he lost control of the vehicle and crashed. |
| José Almanza Alcaine | MC | 27 January 2019 | Former regidor and former candidate for municipal president of Tlaquiltenango, Morelos | Intercepted by gunmen while driving. |
| Rodrigo Segura Guerrero | PES | 19 March 2019 | Regidor of Atizapán, State of Mexico. | Body found with four gunshot wounds at his private office. |
| Sergio Hernández Vega | N/A | 17 April 2019 | Former secretary of President Enrique Peña Nieto's bodyguard | Tortured and killed during a break-in at his residence. |
| David Eduardo Otlica Avilés | PRD | 23 April 2019 | Municipal president of Nahuatzen, Michoacán | Assailants broke into his house and kidnapped him; his body was found in Coeneo, Michoacán later that day. |
| Maricela Vallejo Orea | MORENA | 24 April 2019 | Municipal president of Altamirano, Veracruz | Vallejo and her husband, Zopiyactle, were intercepted by gunmen while riding in a vehicle. The other occupant, their chauffeur, was also killed. Prior to the assassination, Vallejo alleged that she had been offered money to not assume office. |
| Efrén Zopiyactle Tlaxcaltécatl | MORENA | 24 April 2019 | Municipal treasurer of Altamirano, Veracruz | Vallejo and her husband, Zopiyactle, were intercepted by gunmen while riding in a vehicle. The other occupant, their chauffeur, was also killed. Prior to the assassination, Vallejo alleged that she had been offered money to not assume office. |
| Eusebio Martinez | PES | 14 July 2019 | Regidor of La Paz, State of Mexico | His body was discovered in his car with a gunshot wound. |
| Fernando Tinoco Cervantes | N/A | 21 July 2019 | Representative of the Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB) | Tinoco was reported missing on 19 July. His body was found tied up and blindfolded at the bottom of a well two days later. |
| Bertha Silva Díaz | MORENA | 9 August 2019 | Former candidate for local deputy of Guerrero. | Killed outside of a store 500 meters from a police station. |
| Carmela Parral Santos | PRD | 16 August 2019 | Municipal president of San José Estancia Grande, Oaxaca | Body was found with gunshot wounds. The body of a local official was found alongside Parral's. |
| Orencio Bello Sánchez | MORENA | 21 August 2019 | Former candidate for municipal president of Chilapa, Guerrero | Two bodies were found along the Chilpancingo–Chilapa federal highway, one being Bello Sánchez. |
| Francisco García Ramírez | MORENA | 24 September 2019 | Regidor of Apaseo el Alto, Guanajuato | While driving following a municipal council meeting, García was killed by gunmen. The other occupant was wounded. |
| José Luis Saucillo Méndez | PAN | 25 September 2019 | Regidor of Comonfort, Guanajuato | Body was found with over ten gunshot wounds. |
| Cornelio López Moreno | PAN | 30 October 2019 | Regidor of Santiago Maravatío, Guanajuato | Reported missing on 19 September 2019. His body was found on 30 October and identified on 1 November; the body had gunshot wounds. |
| Francisco Tenorio Contreras | PRD | 2 November 2019 | Municipal president of Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico | Shot by armed assailants in the head on 29 October 2019; he was declared brain dead at a hospital and died four days later. |
| Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Salinas | PRI | 3 November 2019 | Former municipal president of Santiago Llano Grande, Oaxaca | Shot by armed assailants at his home. |
| Juan Carlos Molina Palacios | PRI | 9 November 2019 | Local deputy of Veracruz | Shot outside of his ranch. |
| Hugo Estefanía Monroy | PRD | 30 November 2019 | Former municipal president of Cortazar, Guanajuato | Shot at his company's minibus base; his wife was seriously injured in the attack. |
| Lorenzo Barajas Heredia | PRD | 13 December 2019 | Former municipal president of Buenavista, Michoacán | Armed assailants broke into an event and shot Barajas. |
| Fidel Fernández Figueroa | MORENA | 21 December 2019 | Regidor and former municipal president of San Pedro Ixcatlán, Oaxaca | Shot at a grocery store. |
| Arturo García Velázquez | MORENA | 23 December 2019 | Municipal president of Jalapa de Díaz, Oaxaca | During a Christmas festival, armed assailants arrived at the municipal DIF offices and shot at both men. |
| Javier Terrero | MORENA | 23 December 2019 | Regidor of Jalapa de Díaz, Oaxaca | During a Christmas festival, armed assailants arrived at the municipal DIF offices and shot at both men. |
| Luciano Moreno López | PRI | 31 December 2019 | Former municipal president of Cochoapa el Grande, Guerrero | Shot at a dance by armed assailants; another man was also killed. |

## 2020

| Name | Political affiliation | Date | Position | Notes |
| Erik Juárez Blanquet | PRD | 10 March 2020 | Former federal deputy for the 2nd district of Michoacán | Shot while in the passenger seat of a vehicle. |
| Obed Durón Gomez | N/A | 6 April 2020 | Municipal president of Mahahual, Quintana Roo | Intercepted and killed while on his way to Xkalak, Quintana Roo. |
| Luis Alfonso Robles Contreras | N/A | 14 May 2020 | Former municipal president of Magdalena de Kino, Sonora | Killed in a crossfire between two criminal groups. |
| Alfonso Isaac Gamboa Lozano | PRI | 21 May 2020 | Former Undersecretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) | Armed assailants shot at a residence in Temixco, Morelos. Three men and two women were killed; Gamboa Lozano was among the victims. |
| Francis Anel Bueno Sánchez [es] | MORENA | 2 June 2020 | Local deputy from Colima's 16th district. | Was kidnapped on 29 April 2020 while conducting a sanitization campaign related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ixtlahuacán, Colima. Her body was discovered in a clandestine grave along the Tecomán-Alcuzahue highway on 2 June 2020. |

## 2024

| Name | Political affiliation | Date | Position | Notes |
| Aronia Wilson Tambo | N/A | 9 January 2024 | Councillor and indigenous leader | Killed at home. |
| Guadalupe Guzmán Cano | PRD | 24 January 2024 | PRD state advisor of Guerrero | While driving on the Chilapa–Tlapa federal highway, Guzmán Cano and her husband, Marcelino Ruiz Esteban, were fatally shot by armed assailants. |
| José Alejandro Naredo García | PRD | 27 January 2024 | PRD municipal leader of Cuitláhuac, Veracruz | Killed by armed assailants in Cuitláhuac, Veracruz. |
| Juan Pérez Guardado | N/A | 7 February 2024 | Secretary of Social Development in Fresnillo, Zacatecas | Brother-in-law of senator Ricardo Monreal. Fatally shot by armed assailants near the Real de Minas hospital in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. |
| Yolanda Sánchez | PAN | 3 June 2024 | Municipal president in Cotija de la Paz, Michoacán | Killed in a drive-by shooting in the public plaza. |
| Esmeralda Garzón Campos | MORENA | 7 June 2024 | Regidora in Tixtla, Guerrero | Shot dead outside her home. |
| Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda | PRI | 25 July 2024 | Former municipal president of Culiacán, former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, and deputy-elect | Circumstances unclear; probably connected to the arrest the same day of drug barons Joaquín Guzmán López and Ismael Zambada. |
| Ulises Hernández Martínez | N/A | 29 September 2024 | Putative future head of public security for the municipality of Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero | Former director of the Guerrero State Police's special forces |