By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
There were 35,625 homicides in Mexico last year, according to new data released today by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its abbreviation in Spanish). This data shows that violence in Mexico remains at its peak, despite the government's militarized strategy so far, as well as indicating once again that organized crime is the primary cause.
The top 5 states were Guanajuato - 4333, Baja California - 3246, Chihuahua - 2743, Michoacán - 2691, and Sonora - 2088. These 5 states alone account for 15,101 homicides, 42% of the total. All of these states currently are the battlegrounds for major conflicts between organized crime groups, highlighting the driving role they play in in Mexico's homicide counts, and the severity of the organized crime problem. Indeed, The Global Organized Crime Index ranks the severity of organized crime in Mexico at 7.57 out of a 10 max scale, the worst in the region.
Experts and government officials alike agree that organized crime is behind the majority of homicides in Mexico. In 2010, former President Felipe Calderon stated that 90% of homicides in the nation resulted from disputes between criminal groups. This was likely an exaggeration intended to blame all criminality in Mexico on crime groups, and contemporary expert counts such as those by Lantia Intelligence place the percentage homicides due to criminal groups around 65-70% of the total.
The elevated homicide that Mexico maintains despite record deployments of security forces reveal the inability of Mexico's security forces to provide peace. In 2021, SEDENA forces deployed for public security reached a then record of 80,120, according to SEDENA data accessed by Animal Politico.
According to InSight Crime, nations in Latin America saw a spike in homicides in 2021 for several reasons. First, there were lockdowns related to Covid-19 in place across the region, causing decreases in reported crime across the region, and lower homicide counts. Rising poverty also caused many young people to become susceptible to organized crime recruitment. Security forces in the region were also impacted by the pandemic, hamstringing their ability to respond and deter crime.
Thats crazy, that's 97 murders a day
ReplyDeleteThe USA on 2020 had about 25,000 homicides but close to 2 million assaults. It had 45 thousand gun deaths.
DeleteOver exactor
DeleteAnything you do won't make Mexico look good.
😂😂😂😂
Delete2:49
DeleteWhat? Write coherently or use very short and simple sentences.
All Lives Matter
Delete2:49 no matter what, México looks better than your racist nalgas...
DeletePaying drug traffickers with weapons or drugs is the reason of México's problems, US Politics too.
3:47 it's easy to understand what 2:49 is writing, you have to understand ESL students come in here to project their comments on the article.
Delete2:49 is directing this to 2:03
"Over exacturater.
Anything you do won't make Mexico look good."
3:47
DeleteP.S.
SIR is also an ESL student.
Some of his comments are out of this world, but it takes time to understand him.
8:08
DeleteIt's easy but you have to assume what they were trying to write. That's no excuse for garbage writing and that's not how ESL works. Please learn what ESL is.
7:36 Smarty-pants wants the whole definition on E.S.L.=English Second
DeleteLanguage.
People from different aspects in life come in here to comment and are learning English grammar they may get a few words wrong, but I myself was able to understand what this person meant, along with what SIR writes as some people call it Gibberish writing, some of it is weird, but I understand, I give SIR an A for effort for trying his best in using words.
7:47
DeletePlease refer back to 7:36.
9:02 translate "vete a la verga".
DeleteI AM A FAN OF EXACTURATIONS, but spell check fucked the word and I did not get it, lovely new word...
DeleteBut but Grampa Obrador says only about 7 homicides occur per year.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Mexico LINDO
You made it to the top in homicides,35,525 for 2021, not including the disappeared.
US is not too far behind since we have weekely massacres.
ReplyDeleteLol jealous boy, USA will never reach that amount in yearly homicides.
DeleteBut to make you 😊 happy, in 2021 ,
107,000 junkies died to overdoses of drugs coming from Mexico. Mostly fentanyl.
20726 gun deaths w/o suicides and 693 mass shootings in 2021. You are sharing the same table with the mexicans mi hijo
DeleteMexico tops number one in homicides.
DeleteThanks to grampas government innocent people dying everyday.
2:47 mexicans are not overdosing, even cuicos are not overdosing from looking at fentanyl like US cuicos do.
DeleteUS weapons trafficked illegally to Mexico is the problem, but some murders after torture come from slashing throats or beatings, a few in police facilities...
But have faith, "reconciliation" work is in progress.
1:11 Blaming Mexico for your very own shit doesnt make you look very smart...☺
Delete35k compared to 36k last year and 34k the year before.
ReplyDeleteI would say under AMLO watch
DeleteThis year will reach 35,000 plus the unaccounted.
But AMLO will blame it on the past presidents.
DeleteInvolving the mexican melitary is the problem, their revenge on México for making El Negro Durazo, (arturo durazo moreno) a five star general of the mexican armies by president portillo and the stealing of the melitary budget by salinas drove the melitary incursion in police work to clean their honor with money from trafficking or traffickers or extorting,
DeleteCienpedos said it best:
"We are not police, we are not trained as police to make arrests, we kill..."
Militarizing the US police has been A BLUNDER TOO, but retired melitary needed to make a few more dollars to live grand rich lives like arab sheiks
As I write this some people are getting tortured, murdered in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of takeaways from these statistics. First, homicides in Mexico are not only moderating, but beginning to decrease. The second is that Tamaulipas is not in the top 5 for homicides.
ReplyDeleteCrime is essentially a local phenomenon and best handled by local authorities. You can send in the all of the federal police and military that you like, but these are only temporary measures that produce only short term results. Long term reduction of violent crime rests with local authorities and the communities themselves.
First residents must tire from violent crime and push politicians to change. Politicians have responded by increasing the quality of their police and judicial systems.
This graph represents homicides across the whole of Mexico. It doesn't take into account local conditions in the different cities and states. As violent crime was reduced in some cities and states, it increased in others reflected by an overall rise in homicides in Mexico.
Now you're starting to see a broader reduction in violent crime across most of Mexico.
I believe that homicides in Mexico will fall below 20,000 per year within the next 5 to 6 years and below 10,000 per year within the next decade or so.
These improvements have been made through better vetting and training of Mexico's police forces and improving their pay and benefits.
There is a long way to go, so we all need to support the men and women in Mexico's law enforcement community that is making these changes happen.
Mexico has a great future. I recall Cuatrociengas before it became a tourist destination. This is an isolated community behind a mountain. Their sewage used to drain right into the streets and their were more donkeys than cars. What made this town unique was that it gave you a glimpse of 19th century Mexico. Unfortunately, Cuatrociengas has joined the 21st century so has lost it's uniqueness.
As violence in Mexico decreases, the tourists will return in droves. I believe the new tourist destinations will be the towns made into ghost towns by narcoviolence within an hour or two of the U.S. border, especially in northern Chihuahua and Sonora because these will be simple day trips for many Americans. And of course, tourists will return to the old tourist destinations of Acapulco, the sierra of Chihuahua, Cabos, Cancun, etc.
U.S. policies are misplaced. The Merida Initiative was underfunded and overly reliant on technology. A border wall only forces migrants to buy taller ladders. If the U.S. wants to see real change, they would help improve the pay and benefits of local Mexican law enforcement personnel.
Over the last decade or so, Tamaulipas opened a new training facility for police and their police forces have managed to, and will continue to, reduce violent crime in that state. The narcos are locked in a losing battle with state and federal authorities in Tamaulipas. It's only a matter of time before state authorities gain control. What you are seeing in Tamaulipas is occurring throughout Mexico so the number of homicides will steadily decrease over the next decade or so.
Nice comment! Very refreshing. Couldnt agree more.✌🏽🤙🏽
DeleteHey Detroit,
DeleteIf you ever want to write something for BB, inbox me.
But but but they say Mexico is a safe country. But but but I thought Cancun and other beach destinations are safe. But but but my butt. Mexico is worst than Syria
ReplyDeleteLoll Elmer Fudd
Delete@7:03
DeleteCongratulations! You're very good at running your mouth. Now, go to Syria for two weeks and report back your findings. I'll bet you $1000 dollars it's not as safe compared to Mexico.
8:33 I’d rather stick my head in a lions mouth than setting any part of my body to Mexico. Mexico is way too dangerous and the government couldn’t care of foreigner get murdered there.
Delete6:17 Obviously you have never been out of your country.... But the probabilities of dying randomly are bigger in the US than Mexico. ☺
Delete2:24 I’ve been on vacation with family outside of USA and Mexico was and will never be a vacation destination. Way way way too dangerous. I’ll spend extra thousands to Bahamas or virgin island instead, I don’t have to worry about stray bullets and being kidnap by cartel members.
DeleteBut but Duranzo secretary of Security, said Mexico is really safe. All the while you have peddlers at Cancun selling any type of drug you want. Days of selling gum are gone.
ReplyDeleteBased on national graphics, but every city/estate differs. And thats what spring breakers look for in Cancun
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