Carlos Manzo was attacked shortly after 8 p.m. and later died from his injuries at a hospital, officials said.

Carlos Manzo, a mayor in the state of Michoacán, had repeatedly asked President Claudia Sheinbaum for more resources. He was shot outside a church.

Under the program, families, regardless of income, can receive state vouchers to cover public and private child care fees.

CBC News accompanied several mothers in the search for their missing children in Mexico City. The capital is the first jurisdiction in the country to use a pattern-based strategy to find the about 7,000 people listed as disappeared in the city.

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend and that both leaders agreed to extend a looming trade deadline for several weeks as negotiations continue on outstanding issues with Washington.