Officials report a significant decline in homicides: Thursday's mañanera recapped
- President Claudia Sheinbaum reported a significant decline in homicides since her government took office on October 1, 2024.
- Sheinbaum attributed this decline to the new national security strategy, which includes strengthened National Guard presence and coordinated law enforcement efforts.
- Security Minister Omar García Harfuch highlighted over 20,000 arrests for serious crimes, dismantling of 896 clandestine drug labs, and seizures of 154 tonnes of drugs in seven months.
- Homicides dropped 24.9% in April 2025 compared to September 2024, with a daily average of 65.3 murders, the lowest April figure since 2016, and 52% occurred in seven states.
- The data imply that the security strategy has begun reducing violence nationwide, although some states like Guanajuato remain highly affected with 1,260 homicides early this year.
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Government reduces 24.9% daily average manslaughter in the country since September
The Executive Secretary of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), Marcela Figueroa, reported on Thursday, May 8, that the daily average of malicious homicides was reduced by 24.9 percent in October 2024, when Claudia Sheinbaum took office in April of this year. At the press conference of the president, Marcela Figueroa highlighted the reduction of this crime in the first seven months of the current federal administration. She added that t…
Officials report a significant decline in homicides: Thursday's mañanera recapped
High-ranking security officials attended President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday morning press conference to present the latest data on homicides, arrests and seizures of drugs and firearms. Sheinbaum herself declared that the decline in homicides since she took office is the result of the new security strategy her government has implemented. Homicides down almost 25% in April compared to last month of AMLO’s presidency Marcela Figueroa Franco, h…
A Mexico with less than 25 homicides a day
The undisputed statistical improvement cannot be taken as good news, yet. According to preliminary official figures, homicides in April (plus femicide) were around 67 newspapers. A very impressive figure compared, for example, to the 100th of April 2020, or the 89 that were recorded in September, when the government of Sheinbaum-García HarfuchTrevilla-Morales assumed functions. I repeat, therefore, what was said a month ago, that is remarkable a…
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