"Socalj" for Borderland Beat
On May 25, the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador set a record of 156,136 murders in the time since his taking office in December 2018. This number has already surpassed the 6-year time period of the previous administration, with a year and a half still to go. It should be also noted that the figures slightly differ depending on the agency doing the counting, and do not include those who are missing.
According to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (Sesnsp), and the Daily Report of the Secretariat for Citizen Security and Protection (SSPC), [in my personal opinion] the strategy "Hugs, not Bullets." has not worked.
On May 25, the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador set a record of 156,136 murders in the time since his taking office in December 2018. This number has already surpassed the 6-year time period of the previous administration, with a year and a half still to go. It should be also noted that the figures slightly differ depending on the agency doing the counting, and do not include those who are missing.
According to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (Sesnsp), and the Daily Report of the Secretariat for Citizen Security and Protection (SSPC), [in my personal opinion] the strategy "Hugs, not Bullets." has not worked.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's Term
December 2018-May 2023 (Term Ends September 2024)
156,163+ Homicide Victims
156,163+ Homicide Victims
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Former President Enrique Peña Nieto's Term
December 2012-November 2018
156,066 Homicide Victims
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156,066 Homicide Victims
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Former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's Term
December 2006-November 2012
120,463 Homicide Victims
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Former President Vicente Fox Quesada's Term
December 2000-November 2006
60,280 Homicide Victims
AMLO Claims Violence Was Inherited
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that his government is already the most violent six-year term in Mexico's recent history. However, he claims this was due to the "bad inheritance" that previous governments left him. López Obrador accused his predecessors of having created these criminal groups, since he accused that there was a "Narco State," but assured that the crime of homicide is going down.
"Now they tell us 'What a barbarity, the current government is the government that has the most homicides!' Yes, but why don't you put the homicide sheet (he instructed his spokesman Jesús Ramírez) to see how they left the country to us, because this is a bad inheritance in security, but that's how they left us health, education and that's how they left us everything."
"Now they tell us 'What a barbarity, the current government is the government that has the most homicides!' Yes, but why don't you put the homicide sheet (he instructed his spokesman Jesús Ramírez) to see how they left the country to us, because this is a bad inheritance in security, but that's how they left us health, education and that's how they left us everything."
The President pointed out that it was the predecessors who created the gangs and criminal groups and which were "consolidating" due to impunity and the complicity of the authorities and gave an example to Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Public Security in the six-year term of Felipe Calderón and today is imprisoned in the United States for links to drug trafficking.
The president assured that in the past six-year term, homicides increased by 59%, while the worst jump occurred in the Calderón government when they rose by 192%, following the militarization of the drug war in 2006. That variable favors him, because according to his statistics, in the last five years, it has fallen by 17%. "This has cost us a lot, and we hope it continues to decline," said the president.
The president assured that in the past six-year term, homicides increased by 59%, while the worst jump occurred in the Calderón government when they rose by 192%, following the militarization of the drug war in 2006. That variable favors him, because according to his statistics, in the last five years, it has fallen by 17%. "This has cost us a lot, and we hope it continues to decline," said the president.
Awesome job....President dont care bcuz he is receiving money from cartels.
ReplyDeleteHe isn't taking money from cartels for personal gain, he just isn't. You clearly know nothing about him. He can sound naive and come across as bumbling, but he is not corrupt in the simplistic way people in the US define corruption in Mexico. He may be forced to protect corrupt generals because his power over the army is tenuous, and the balance of power with the US is always on a knife edge. People who laughed at his plan to invest in social programs to cut off young cartel recruitments instead of giving that money to the army that had been working to protect the traffickers, those people predicted murders in Mexico would skyrocket, but they decreased.
DeleteAll presidents past and current receive bribes.
DeleteYour one funny 🤣 man.
922 is clearly an almo d rider blinded by his love.
DeleteMaybe not his not getting paid. But his family and fatso sons do. Check it out.
DeleteAt least he didn't start this corrupt war
DeleteThe number of murders on Vincente Fox, is better, than the current amistration of Mexico. ALMO what is your comment??????
ReplyDeleteYou gotta remember past administrations “fudged” the number’s alot better back then, also no social media.. real number’s back then must have been atrocious
DeleteFox was the one started the bloodshed by taking millions from Chapo’s clean swift exit from puente grande. Ironically, Fox declares war on Tijuana soon after. Chapo’s fear and arch enemies
DeleteThe number of murders during the Clinton, Obama and Biden administration has been the highest in history.
ReplyDelete😂 lol the article is about Mexico, not the US.
DeleteYou need to put the crack pipe down.
DeleteNope Only When Trump was President. And Bush
DeleteMaga 2024
Delete10:17 i agree lets keep Biden or anybody else but Trump!👍
Delete10:17/11:28
DeleteDon’t know anything about politics .
Just what Jorge Ramos tells them
Victimizing criminals and drug junkies has increased the crime in the USA. In some cities they have statues for a criminal who pointed a loaded gun at a pregnant women while his crew stole from her home.
DeleteKim Jung Un can't keep getting away with this!
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ReplyDeleteof them were criminals and how many were innocent lives ?
he's just carrying the weight and problems from the past presidencies
ReplyDeleteYes but as a current president, he lets them get away with MURDER!
DeleteThe death increase is due to lack of opportunities, the young ones lack education and resort to the easy route, they listen to a corrido and suddenly they find an idol! The smart criminals reside to politics , yes they are criminals ! White Collar! The increase in death toll is because of a failed state - country ! The situation is getting worse for everyone criminals and citizens. Desperation is on the rise , lack of opportunities and greed of many
ReplyDeleteToo bad everyone is a product of their environment and have no control over their actions. It would be weird if people constructed society and weren't just the victims of social constructs.
DeleteAnd next year there will be a new president. And a new one in the US. Things are going to get "interesting".
ReplyDeleteYeah but the cartels gained momentum due to past presidents. Lets keep it a buck. If they wouldn’t have let them evolve to what they are when AMLO stepped in. Organized crime has gained too much influence from past administrations. Why dont people mention the amount of money that has been seized and compare that?
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DeleteWell, AMLO is like any other other Mx presiden that he criticized. Shit his sons don’t even live in Mexico. Why? Bc he fears the hungry dogs. And guess what right now no one is eating as normal and hungry dogs tend to bite.
DeleteHugs not bullets
ReplyDeleteI'm no longer team ALMO. I don't like tromps politics but he was fighter and in face of Los democrats that still cry about him. Mexico needs fighter presidente.
DeleteThe cartel hugs you from behind as they cut off your head. The politicians n cops also hug you from behind as they lower your shorts.
DeleteBest Mexican president ever !! ViVa AMLO ! Wish he could stay president longer
ReplyDeleteI believe El Universal was one of the news publications that was named for taking money from Garcia Luna and the Calderon administration to write favorable articles.
ReplyDeleteOk. What does that have to do with the homicides during AMLOs term? @11:24
Delete229, ugh, que hueva. It's a very large and complex web and touching on one topic will lead to another. It basically comes down to El Universal along with the mexican mainstream media spearheading an anti amlo campaign. As I mentioned earlier, Garcia Luna was paying to have favorable articles created. AMLO said, "NO MORE CHAYOTE" Meaning he would not pay the mainstream media to write positive articles and that's where the negative articles began.
DeleteAgain, it gets a lot more complex. AMLOs programs and political moves have been a threat to foreign investors, primarily U.S. and corrupt mexican beneficiaries, like the owners of these mexican media outlets who benefitted from the corruption of Garcia Luna and the past administrations. How does the U.S retaliate? The U.S starts funding the mexican media under the guise of the USAID program (shout out to crazy SIR because he was the first to mention USAID on BB) which supposedly promotes free speech around the world. It's basically a tool to manipulate foreign media and create instability amongst the population wherever the U.S has some type of special interest. What's the result? An AMLO media blackout that focuses on one topic and neglects his achievements.
So back tou your question. Since the mexican media outlets are no longer receiving chayote (funding from the mexican government) and instead receiving it from the U.S, they are going to write what their masters say and add their own spin. Since the U.S is funding the mexican mainstream media through USAID and AMLO is a threat to U.S and other foreign investments, then you're going to read a lot of negative articles.
Let's take a look at the increase in homicides between each administration:
Fox and Calderon, 60k increase in homicides over the term.
Calderon and Peña Nieto, 35K increase in homicides over the term.
Peña Nieto and AMLO, the term isn't over. The article states approximately 100+ difference between their numbers, but if I had to take a guess I would say the final increase in homicides will be between 30k-35k.
Again, I don't want to get into this because it's a lot more complex, but if we ask for the status of those 156k that were killed we'd probably come to find out a small percentage were innocent victims, the other small percentage probably government personnel and the large majority criminals.
So is it fair to pin the blame on AMLO when in reality Calderons actions created the splinter cartels between CDS, CDG and everyone else? After all, if my speculation is correct and the large majority of the homicides are not innocent victims but rather between feuding criminal factions then is it not fair to blame Calderons corrupt administration for siding with certain groups and "inadvertently" contributing to the creation of these feuds?
Again, it's a lot more complex, but lets not forget to mention that the U.S GOVERNMENT was facilitating the introduction of illegal firearms into Mexico. Into a country where those types of firearms are not allowed for civilian use and as a result adding to the homicide rate.
9:15 damn you use a lot of words but the reality is these are the numbers of homicides that have occurred during his term. When does he accept his responsibility? His policies que no? He wanted the job but gets hissy when the negative is reported. "It's the media's fault".
DeleteSi ocupa huevitos de líder aquí tengo yo pa que agarre valor para afrontar los problemas.
Tanto pedo que aventó contra FCH y EPN y ahora se hace mariquita cuando lo cuestionan y critican a el. Culón
306, it's a lot more complex than a 5 sentence response. Puedes decir que haces y deshaces y que tienes mas "huevitos" que la abuelita de batman, but talk is cheap. SHOW us what you've done.
Delete10:01 blah, blah, blah. Le quedó grande el puesto a tu mesías. No acepta su responsabilidad y menos con chairos y chayoteros pagados como tú defendiendolo. Para todo lo malo que sucede por su falta de acción tienen paró. Viejillo lacra
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Delete1033 What you fail to understand is that everything AMLO is currently facing are the unintended consequences of the previous administrations actions and policies. Dating all the way back to Salinas de Gortari, Cedillo, Fox to Calderon and Peña Nieto. All of the issues created by the past administrations are being addressed under the current administration, from infrastructure, corruption, national security to social and economic concerns. The problem with you is, your source of information comes mainly from Mexico's 2 manopolized corporate media companies who have managed to corral 30% of the population to believe that homicides and the drug trade are the only problems mexico faces while ignoring the rest of this governments achievement. Its funny to me that you were expecting all of Mexicos problems to be solved as soon as the new president took office with out realizing that this is a long distance relay race not a 30 yard dash. When in U.S history has that every happend? What Mexican politician do you think would have rescued Mexico had AMLO not been voted in? You can come back with insults but never with any conversation worthy responses.
11:54 el pez por su propia boca muere. AMLO spewed rhetoric until the end of time how he would fix everything, he created expectations when he sold himself as a great politician and leader. Now his AMLOcos talk about another term being necessary. If that's what he and his MORENISTAS wanted they should have changed the constitution.
DeleteHe tasted the power and what he would criticize of his predecessors he has also become.
241 how has become like his predecessors?
Delete11:54 Chayotero in de BB.
Delete241, Captures under AMLO include, RCQ, his nephew "El R" Ovidio, el Omega, El Durango, Lupe Tapia and his son, La Vaca, El Marro, Huevo Trevino, El Cazador, El Contador, El Vaquero, Menchos brother El Montana and Menchos wife La Jefa...
Delete-6 national dam projects
-12 national road projects
-4 wind farms
-1 solar energy farm
-6 Iberdola power plants
-Built 1 new oil refinery and modernized 6 and bought the DeerBorn oil refinery in Texas.
-Nationalized the Lithium deposits
-Building of the Tehuantepec Isthmus railway that will create an import/export route which equals more jobs.
-Construction of the Tren Maya which has created direct and indirect jobs and will attract tourism to that region.
-Built 3 new airports along the tren Maya route and remodeled 2
-AMLO scrapped the retarded idea of building an airport on top of Lake Texcoco
-turned the failed airport on top of the lake into a national park.
-Rather than a flooded airport on top of a lake, AMLO opted to build the Felipe Angeles Airport for half the cost. All because he made use of his resources and used the military to build it. The construction of the Felipe Angeles Airport also includes an added museum and a new highway to get there.
-AMLO finally sold the presidential aircraft that cost over 200 million dollars
-Using the aircraft funds to build 2 new state of the art hospitals in Oaxaca and Guerrero.
-Under AMLO the corrupt Polica federal was disbanded and absorbed by the Guardia Nacional. The 30k personnel were absorbed by the Guardia and an additional 90k GN personnel were hired.
-By the end of his term there should be close to 600 military stations throughout the country to house the 120k Guardia Nacional personnel.
-Under AMLO SeDeNa took charge of all land, air and sea ports of entry and not just moved the aduanas headquarters to Nuevo Laredo but is building a new state of the art facility to match the U.S border crossing technology.
Now unlike his predecessors, AMLO did not sell Mexicos natural resources, the train system, or Mexicos energy to foreigners. He's done the opposide by buying a lot of that stuff back and taken control of Mexicos natural resources. AMLO has reclaimed Mexico's national sovereignty. He's limited the DEA's power on Mexican soil, he renegotiated the Merida Initiative with the Bicentennial agreement along with nationalizing and subsidizing Mexicos energy and natural resources. This still doesn't include his contributions to the health sector, the education sector and all of the social programs that the elderly, indigenous and disadvantaged youth have benefitted from. His world leader approval is over 60%, number 2 in the world behind the Indian president.
Now if you don't recognize the information I just provided as actions of a great leader then Im sorry to tell you but you're flat out ignorant and you dont know what the hell you're talking about.
Your statement, "AMLOcos talk about another term being necessary..." is nothing more than a strawman attack. I checked the comments and nobody has mentioned anything about AMLO getting a second term. I even Google your nonsense and several videos came up with AMLO actually saying he was going to retire from politics as soon as his term was over.
Elmo never had a security strategy.
DeleteSo many homicides yearly.
Gotdam 1:02. LMAO. Add 1 MORE to the HOMICIDEZ cuz 2:41juzt got MURKED. ☠️⚰️🪦🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Delete9:40 yeah, MAN DOWN over here with that verbose comment by the AMLOco chayotero.
DeleteHey 1:08 you sure you didn't write the 10:48 comment "Best Mexican president ever. !! ViVa AMLO ! Wish he could stay longer"? I ask because you tend to write MoReNa and SeDeNa which is uncommon just as ViVa. Was that an oversight by you when you wrote "I checked the comments and nobody has mentioned AMLO getting a second term"?
Is Dos Bocas functioning already? Surely no cost overruns right? Tsk, tsk.
El economista.com.mx article from 21/05/23 about said "landmark" project has "otros datos". Not true?
You think El Tren Maya project will be within the estimated budget costs? How about the environmental and safety costs? One serious accident and that ends all the projected revenues it could potentially generate for the people of the region. Engineering better be up to par.
The hospitals in Tlapa Guerrero and Tuxtepec Oaxaca are constructed already?
938 Although "wishing he could stay longer" and saying "another term is necessary" are similar, they are not the same. Whatever though, you could have that one for arguments sake.
DeleteDos Bocas was still built in record time and at a cost effective budget, regardless of your negative thoughts and feelings. You keep thinking and hoping it will never open but you will eat your words when its fully functional vendido.
Same goes with the tren Maya. It will still be built in record time and thanks to the help of the mexican military taking part in the construction process, YES, it will still be under budget, despite all of your whataboutism's.
The Presidential aircraft was just sold last month, so not unless you're talking about superman working faster than a speeding bullet, then, no, the 2 hospitals in Oaxaca and Guerrero are not built yet. They are projected to be constructed by 2024 and I don't see why not since close to 200 hospitales have been completed since AMLO took office.
The list I provided was long and you only took jabs at three of AMLO's projects. I don't expect you to knock everything AMLO has achieved during his term because then you would prove my statement right, "if you don't recognize the information I just provided as actions of a great leader then Im sorry to tell you but you're flat out ignorant and you dont know what the hell you're talking about."
1:08 continuing with my response. That AMLO sure does have many websites tooting his own horn. Do you ever verify that what he's selling is legit or do you just swallow it all without concern? By the way you copy and paste those comments about all his deeds but still manage to commit errors. WTF? All that brilliant praise undone by mistakes.
DeleteSort of reminds me of that Gilber....individual who would copy and paste much smack about the people of Michoacán but cowardly would never step up to back it up. Some Sinaloa lackey from Coahuila he seemed like, always crying to the moderators. Not "projection" compita, es la neta buey.
Corruption breed impunity, vice versa or go hand in hand? We shall find out...
423 if you doubt any of the notable captures under AMLO that I copied and pasted then maybe you can use the borderland beat archives to cross reference and validate any incorrect information.
DeleteI don't know what websites you're talking about but I'm pretty sure you don't know what websites you're talking about either. Not unless AMLO is staging all of the video footage covered on his official YouTube channel, then I'm pretty confident that everything he is sharing on that platform is legit, considering the locations, backdrops, props, paid actors and lengths of each video.
Additional websites I've used include:
Www.gob.mx
Www.gobernacion.gob.mx
Www.sedena.gob.mx
Www.imss.gob.mx
Www.lopezobrador.org.mx
I know you revere Carlos Loret de Mola and Jorge Ramos as these beacons of light and profits of truth but i dont consider them as reputable sources of information.
The rate has gone up for each president one surpassing the next. How I that a reflection on ALMO? I would bet the next president will surpass ALMO s murder rate like all befor him. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteWhere are all of the ELMO chayoteros when the truth comes out?
ReplyDeletePffft. During the GGL trial, El Universal was named as one of the publications taking bribes from Garcia Luna to write positive articles and paint him as a super cop. I'd take anything they write with a grain of salt as they will add a spin to anything AMLO related.
DeleteBut but but ALMO said no Fentynal comes from Mexico. Only raspados ice cream comes from Mexico.😭😭😂🤣
DeleteWhat truth that American s are selling fent and killing other Americans for profit. Or how Purdue pharma creating the opiod epidemic and our gov give them a fine. They litterly said oxy is non addictive. Truth been out there sorry ypu can't see it.
DeleteAMLO tiene otros datos!
ReplyDeleteIf the murder rate keeps going this high, in 30 yrs Mexican will be down to 0 population.
ReplyDeleteNah, we reproduce like rabbits. 9 months after their quinceñera mexican girls are having their first set of cuates.
DeleteOne guy isnt gunna fix much of years of abuse come on fooos
ReplyDeleteFor reals no period guy.😂🤣
DeleteOne term is all they get, we don't need another Putin.
DeleteI wouldn’t be surprised if they did more counting during amlo then they did the other admins. None of this data accounts for the missing
ReplyDelete"In 2018, the number of drug-related homicides in Mexico rose to 33,341, a 15 percent increase from the previous year—and a record high."
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2018 was a power vaccuum stage in Mexico which started to see an increase in DRUG RELATED homicides, as opposed to collateral damages.
People forget AMLO took over a literal war. and his Hugs Not Bullets approach is vastly misunderstood and corrupted by western media. Mexico is/was a society where children were more accustomed to bullets rather than hugs (in other words; a stable home life). President Obrador managed to localize the areas of violence into certain states while heavily investing in social reforms, education, and tackling unemployment which has dramatically gone down during his term. He dismantled the most corrupt agency in his country and the fact that violence is easier to track TODAY, and the numbers have remained more or less stable (plenty of room for improvement no doubt), just goes to show what a great job he's doing IMO.
Cayotero 😂 in the house.
DeleteYou understated the homicides.
On Elmo's watch they average 35,000
a year.
Anon.
DeleteI don't really know what a "Cayotero" is but it's your world I suppose.
As for the number I stated; it's based on DRUG RELATED homicides. This means people directly involved in drug trafficking and organized crime as opposed to innocent bystanders and everyday civilians.
It's not exactly hard to see how a trend of social decay led a whole generation astray and right into the hands of narco cultura.
10:35 generations have been led astray. Or have they?
DeleteMIZG is probably the most well known practitioner of narcotrafficking in México and he's over 70 years old. Some people don't want to change, they do what they do because they want to, how many male children of druglords dedicate themselves to living noncriminal lives?
Security has to be above everything else, those who chose to engage in criminal behavior sooner or later will be dealt with and their revenue streams will be greatly affected thereby reducing their ability to operate and corrupt.
Anon.
DeleteI agree that habits are a thing. That doesn't change what the statistics show. The numbers are not dramatically surpassing an ever growing trend in homicides. Surely you can see how that provides a sense of consistency in terms of security.
And of course people can lead normal lives, especially those with the means to do so. I was of course, referring to the other side of the population. The vast majority. The poor and marginalized that see these things and how they are portrayed in the media and realistically they have no other choice. AMLO has addressed these issues as well as the ROOT cause of the issue which is; a massive drug addiction problem in the US as well as the deluge of arms being brought in from that country.
Security begins with the nurturing of society. Not the other way around. The PRI amd PAN had their chance. What Obrador started doesnt look like much now but he will be the first of a new generation of politicians. Actual statesmanship, which is rare these days..
Five years into his presidency he is still blaming past administrations for his lack of progress. Take some accountability AMLO or you will never get anywhere.
ReplyDeleteHablador when he retires, he will go visit Chapos mom, and chat with her everyday.
DeleteAs someone(eloquently)pointed out there are too many heads to this hydra.Its like overgrown ivy there is no one answer.Really do wish the best for Mexico but shiiiiiit is it going to take a while!
ReplyDeleteThe death and destruction is always worse when liberals or socialists are in charge......Socialism has killed more people in history than any other political theory.....its not even close.
ReplyDeleteArriba la 4T
ReplyDeleteMexico is such a beatiful country, but the extreme violence is a major turn-off.
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