MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of an alleged mastermind in the assassination of a popular opposition mayor, a vocal critic of the government’s security policies whose murder has shocked the country and sparked mass protests.

Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan in the major avocado-producing state of Michoacan, was shot and killed during a public Day of the Dead celebration on November 1 while he was with his family. Manzo had repeatedly accused the federal government of failing to act against organized crime.

Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch identified the detainee as Jorge Armando ‘N,’ withholding his last name as is custom in Mexico. He said investigations linked the man to a criminal group in Michoacan that works for the powerful Jalis

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