A total of 21,692 murders have been officially registered so far this year in Mexico, an average of 82 deaths per day
Although in global figures for the six-year term, the perception of insecurity has decreased, in this last month the wave of violence has intensified in some states of the country.
With 10 days left until the end of the six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, there are 21,692 murders so far this year, an average of 82 victims per day.
According to figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), the Obrador administration has accumulated a total of 20,147 victims of intentional homicide from January to August and 1,545 registered so far in September, according to data from the preliminary daily count of the Secretariat of Public Security and Protection (SSPC).
Thursday, September 19, was the most violent day of the month, with 99 murders, mainly in the states of Guanajuato, Baja California, Morelos, State of Mexico, and Sinaloa.
So far, May remains the most violent month of the year, with 2,656 murders and 91 femicides, followed by June with 2,742, according to official figures.
The most violent state in the last year of López Obrador’s six-year term, in absolute numbers, is Guanajuato with 2,174 murders so far this year, an average of eight per day in the entity governed by the National Action Party (PAN).
They are followed by Baja California, 1,732; State of Mexico, 1,692; Chihuahua, 1,455; Jalisco, 1,353; Guerrero, 1,245; Michoacán, 1,151.
When presenting her latest report on crime incidence in the country, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez, boasted that between 2018 and 2022, in 27 entities the rate of crime victims and poverty was reduced, based on data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).
Rodríguez indicated that in the first half of 2024, the number of households that were victims of robbery or extortion decreased by 12.7%, compared to 2018 and highlighted that the citizen perception of insecurity decreased by 14.3%, since in December 2018, it was 73.7% and by June of this year it was 59.4%.
The end of the six-year term has turned violent due to the dispute between the “Los Chapitos” and “Los Mayitos” factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has left more than 40 murders in that entity.
But President López Obrador affirmed this Friday that in his government there has been no repression, disappearances, torture, or massacres and assured that the lethality rates in confrontations between the Armed Forces and criminal groups are the lowest than in previous six-year terms.
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