Gunmen killed the mayor of the eastern city of Jutiapa on Monday, city officials said. Mayor Carlos Castillo Medrano was shot to death at a barbershop, the officials said. The killing occurred on the same day that President Otto Pérez Molina said there had been “a historic decline” in Guatemala’s violence during the first year of his administration. In his state of the nation address, the president said that homicides had decreased about 10 percent over the past year.
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