The San Luis Potosí State Civil Guard reported on November 8, 2026 that the municipal president of Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, was allegedly deprived of his liberty on the San Tiburcio-Vanegas highway, in Zacatecas territory. The alert was issued during the early hours of the morning, after one of the people accompanying him called for help.
The report, disseminated by Milenio with data from the State Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, places the episode on the night of Saturday, November 7, and states that the companions reached Cedral, San Luis Potosí, where they asked the authorities for help. The Potosí force specified that the events did not occur in its territory and activated an operation in the border area with Zacatecas. The fact that the Potosí force issued the report reflects that it was in that state where the group asked for help. The case matters to Mexico for two reasons: it touches on the security of municipal governments, the level of government that sustains daily contact with the population, and it shows how an incident recorded in the strip between two entities requires coordination between different state forces.
According to the version that El Universal takes from the outlet Elefante Blanco, armed individuals intercepted the group in two pickup trucks and the family was released at the scene, where they later went to report the disappearance. The state Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection maintained that "the events did not occur on Potosí soil, but in the neighboring entity." As of the close of this report, no authority had officially confirmed the mayor's whereabouts, and the State Civil Guard was maintaining the deployment in the border area in coordination with the Zacatecas authorities and the corresponding agencies.
The next fact to be confirmed is the result of the joint operation in the strip between Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí and the location of the mayor, on which there is no official confirmation. Coordination between the two entities remains the point to follow in the coming reports.
This report was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence based on verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.