Nury Martinez resigns, the councilor of the Los Angeles City Council who called another mayor's African-American son "changuito"

Nury Martinez, in an image from last April, resigned from the Council on October 12 after four days of scandal caused by his racist statements. Damian Dovarganes (AP)

End of the road for Councilor Nury Martinez.

The Latina mayor has yielded to political and community pressure, which had demanded in one voice her resignation from the Los Angeles City Council after racist and cruel comments were made public against an African-American boy and the city's Oaxacan population.

“It is with a broken heart that I give up my seat on the District 6 Council, the community in which I grew up and my home,” the politician, who a few years ago became one of the most powerful Latinas, wrote in a statement. in California.

A power that she quickly lost after the audio of a conversation with two other colleagues was made public over the weekend and where she calls the black son of another mayor a “changuito”.

The scandal that has caused the leak of the audio continues to grow.

On Tuesday it was President Joe Biden who called for the resignation of those involved.

This Wednesday, the California prosecutor, Rob Bonta, announced that he will open an investigation into the events that triggered the controversial statements of Martinez, who was accompanied by Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo.

This is the process of redrawing electoral districts in the city of more than 10 million people.

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