16 billion taken from security in Mexico and it leads “Criminal Markets”

Despite the insecurity crisis in Mexico and that the country is world leader in “Criminal Markets”, According to the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-OCD), by its acronym in English, the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He took away from the Security Secretariat and Citizen Protection (SSPC) more than 16 billion pesos of the budget granted by the Chamber of Deputies for 2024.

According to the Financial Progress Report of the budget programs approved in the PEF 2024, sent by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to the Lower House, in the first 5 months of this year they did budget adjustmentsso the SSPC budget, which It was 102 thousand 946 million 500 thousand pesos for 2024, was reduced to 86 thousand 743 million 600 thousand pesos.

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This is grave In the current context of Mexico, by the Exponential growth of drug cartels in Mexico in recent yearswhich wage wars in much of the territory for trafficking and carrying out criminal activities, where the Citizens are left helpless against criminals, even Businessmen are executed for reporting protectionist fees and extortion.

16% of security cuts in 2024, although Mexico leads “Criminal Markets”

Nevertheless, The reduction is equivalent to 16% of security resourcesand of the modified total (86 billion pesos) for this year, only 24 billion 227 million 300 thousand pesos were used from January to May.

This happens in the middle of a Insecurity crisis in which 15,110 murders were recorded from January to June from 2024, according to official data announced by the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.

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Additionally, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), the incidence of common law crime registered a 1 million 71 thousand 366 crimes from January to June 2024. And 60,428 crimes are recorded under federal jurisdiction.

Added to this panorama is the result of the biennial study Global Organized Crime Index 2023 to 193 countries, where Mexico stands out as a world leader in “Criminal Markets”.

This index reveals the penetration of organized crime into economieswhere the high incidence of illegal protection fees, human trafficking, trade in synthetic drugs, cocaine, heroin and cannabis (marihuana).

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Mexico, world leader in “Criminal Markets”: GI-TOC

Below are the countries in order of greatest reach of “Criminal Markets”: In this index, Mexico leads the list, followed by Burma, Iran, Nigeria and Colombia.

1. Mexico
2. Burma
3. Iran
4. Nigeria
5. Colombia
6. United Arab Emirates
7. Afghanistan
8. Brazil
9. Kenya
10. South Africa

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“Extortion remains a major problem in almost all cities Mexicans and the municipalities of the states of Michoacan, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Morelos, Nuevo Laredo and Mexico are those that register the highest rates,” indicates the GI-TOC report.

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The programs most affected by the budget adjustment are:

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• Provisions for Security Infrastructureintended for the construction of barracks and dormitories, among other areas, whose cut went from 23 thousand 272 million 700 thousand pesos to 6 thousand 235 million 100 thousand pesos, equivalent to 72%.
• National Guard operation for the prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimeswhose budget was reduced from 36 billion pesos to 35.923 billion.
• Support for the budget process and to improve institutional efficiencywhich went from 13 thousand 719.7 million pesos to 12 thousand 578.5 million pesos.

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In an interview for The Universal, Javier Oliva, security expertsaid that the cut in this matter is part of a a series of setbacks in the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which have weakened the protection of Mexicans in national territory.

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“In the exercises of 2021 and 2022, Morena and its satellites in the Chamber of Deputies Two federal subsidies for local public safety were eliminated: he Subsemen and the Fortaseg.

“And then around 210 municipalities were left without resources for public security. Part of the crisis of violence that the country is experiencing also has explanation in terms of budgetand this clipping in 2024 it will be confirmed,” he said.

Million-dollar cuts to security in Mexico, strategy to transfer GN to Sedena

The professor and full-time researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM also warned that much of the clipping could be linked to the intention of Morena to transfer the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), since most of the money that was eliminated was destined for infrastructure issues.

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“It is very striking that they have decreased in 70% of resources for infrastructurethat is, for the construction of barracks, because this clearly means that there is a provision for the National Guard within the reforms that are going to be applied As of September 1, it will be transferred to Sedena.

“On a recent tour, the President said that they had already 420 barracks inaugurated of the National Guard and evidently This cut is consistent with the reform constitutional to transfer the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense,” he said.

AMLO’s six-year term surpasses Peña Nieto’s as the most violent in history

Finally, he considered that these decisions, taken at the end of the six-year term, have a negative impact on crime rates throughout the country.

“These cuts to the states and now federal public security speak of a six-year period that worked on improvisation in terms of policies and programs public safety: They create undersecretariats and then eliminate them, they create institutions and suppress others.

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“So what I see is this unfortunate thread of improvisation in public safety and this six-year term was no exception.

“This six-year term has already surpassed that of Peña Nieto as the most violent in historywe are around 195 thousand homicides in the entire six-year term, so it will end as the most violent in history, at least in terms of intentional homicides,” he concluded.

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