María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar (1976 – 15 November 2012) was a Mexican physician who From 2008 to 2011, served as mayor of Tiquicheo, Mexico, from 2008 to 2011. In spite of three failed assassination attempts during her tenure as mayor, Gorrostieta continued to be outspoken in the fight against organized crime. In a fourth attack, Gorrostieta was kidnapped and assassinated by suspected drug traffickers on 15 November 2012. Michoacán is home to several violent drug trafficking organizations. She left two girls and a boy; her husband had died in one of the previous assassination attempts. She had to wear a colostomy bag and had brutal scarring from these attempts.
She was abducted after being driven off the road while taking her daughter to school. She went with them voluntarily in exchange for freedom for her daughter. Her body, when recovered, showed multiple signs of torture, her hands and legs had been bound and she had been burnt around the waist and chest. Death occurred from a blow to the head. She was hailed as a heroine and martyr as her death was relayed around the world.
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