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Deadly Weekend Across Latin America: Mexico Mass Shooting, Peru Prison Sweep, Argentine Mayor Killed

Authorities launched urgent investigations, including a presidential raid on two Peruvian prisons, after a surge of unrelated attacks and accidents.

Overview

  • Eleven people were killed and 12 wounded when gunmen opened fire after a football match in Salamanca, Guanajuato, with the state prosecutor opening a case and security reinforced by police and the National Guard.
  • Peru’s president José Jerí led full searches at the Huacho and Huaral prisons, seizing cash, drugs and weapons, with plans to transfer high‑risk inmates and replace the prison agency with the new Sunir.
  • Quehué mayor Nazareno Cruz Otamendi died on La Pampa’s Provincial Route 18 when a hydraulic part detached from a truck crane and struck his Fiat Strada; prosecutors ordered vehicle seizures and forensic examinations.
  • Street violence flared elsewhere as suspected Universitario supporters in Lima injured La Molina municipal agents before police intervened a bus, while shootings in Argentina left a 16‑year‑old dead in Santa Fe and others critical, and a Córdoba rider was detained after a crash that gravely injured a 13‑year‑old.
  • Villarreal confirmed Argentina defender Juan Foyth ruptured his left Achilles tendon and will undergo surgery.