Mexico: 91 people are killed every day – Murders on the rise

In his report the Mexican Ministry of Public Safety announced that during 2021 33,308 were recorded homicides, ie 91.25 every day of the year. Although the number is high, it shows a decrease compared to the previous two years. However, the homicides, rapes, extortions and robberies.

“In six of the 32 states, 50% of homicide victims are concentrated,” she said. Minister of Public Security, Rosa Isela Rodrεςguez.

This is his state Mexico, around the capital Mexico City, τη Guanajuato (centrally), the Baja California and Chihuahua (north), along the border with USA, as well as two other areas through which drugs are trafficked, the Χαλίσκο and Michoacάνn (west).

“We are seeing a declining trend,” the government minister said during a press conference. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

In 2019, a record 34,690 homicides were recorded, while in 2020 there were 34,554, despite the rapid decline in social activities due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus.

Some 340,000 people have been killed in Mexico from 2006, the year he then President Felipe Calderon declared a full-scale war against drug-trafficking gangs.

The Mexico It also counts more than 95,000 missing, according to its official figures National Research Committee. Disappearances became a scourge on Mexico the years of the “dirty war” of the authorities against revolutionary movements of the left, the years 1960-1980. Their numbers exploded again, as did the homicides, from 2006 onwards.

Despite the wave of violence sweeping it, the country of 128 million inhabitants is ranked seventh in the world in terms of tourist visits: they reached 45 million in 2019, according to World Tourism Organization.

Some sporadic incidents with tourist victims were recorded in 2021, as in Tulum, in Gulf of Mexico, where two tourists were killed in late October. Other very touristy areas, however, remain relatively safe, for example the state Oaxaca (southwest).

Murders of women have increased

Despite the decrease in homicides overall, the number of female homicides recorded a new increase, reaching 1,004 (+ 2.7%). This report is more than double that recorded in 2015 (427). At the same time, rapes increased by 28.1%. THE President Lopez Obrador has been criticized by feminist organizations for not addressing the issue of violence against women more vigorously.

Some even argue that his policy against cartels, which he sums up with the phrase “abrazos, no balazos” (“hugs, not bullets”), in practice consolidates a climate of generalized impunity.

Despite his statements about a different policy from that of his predecessors against the gangs, the center-left head of state maintains the armed forces developed throughout the territory, while his government established in March 2019 a new security body, the National Guard, to combat organized crime.