By Brendan O'Boyle MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised on Sunday there would be justice for the brazen murder of a local mayor, Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organized crime who had called on the government to do more to protect him and others.

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.

The Trump administration has unilaterally cancelled more than a dozen existing or planned flight routes between the United States and Mexico as part of a crackdown on what it calls Mexico’s “continued abuse” of a decade-old aviation agreement.

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.

Mexico's Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and agreed both countries would continue negotiating toward a trade agreement, the Economy Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.