MEXICO CITY.— This Tuesday, the Mexican Government reported 2,546 intentional homicides in Julyand year-on-year increase of 3.12%thus breaking the downward trend in the cumulative total for this year.
The 17,660 murders recorded from January to July are 0.3% more than the 17,607 in the first seven months of 2023, according to data released by Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquezholder of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), at the Government’s morning conference.
On the other hand, homicides in July represent a monthly decline of 4.86% compared to the 2,676 in June, thus ending a four-month upward trend.
Despite the uptick, Rodriguez argued that the monthly incidence of murders has fallen by almost 20% compared to the historic high of 3,074 recorded in July 2018, before the president took office. Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorin December of that year.
“As for 2024, we have a decrease, as we said, of 18% compared to 2018. Here is the comparison of each of the previous administrations,” argued the secretary.
The official indicated that six of the 32 states account for almost half of the homicides: Guanajuato, Baja California, State of Mexico, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Guerrero, which together accounted for 7,841 of these crimes in the first seven months of the year.
It also reported a daily average of 83 victims so far in 2024, compared to 85 last year, according to data updated by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
Fewer federal crimes and femicides
The SSPC data also showed a 0.4% year-on-year drop in federal crimes from January to July, when there were 46,993.
The Secretary of Security acknowledged that, in the first seven months of the year, there was a year-on-year increase of 30.1% in organized crime and 20.6% in tax crimes.
But it reported a 21.6% decrease in drug-related crimes, an 8.8% decrease in financial crimes, and a 1.3% decrease in crimes committed with firearms.
“As for federal crimes, we have a reduction of 24.8% (since the Government took office). In most crimes we had reductions in crimes related to federal jurisdiction,” said Rodriguez.
The figures also revealed an 8.21% year-on-year decrease in femicides, gender-based murders of women, which totaled 481 in the first seven months of 2024, compared to 524 in the same period in 2023.
In July alone, there was a year-on-year reduction of 12.5% to 63 femicides.
“There has been a 37.6% decrease in femicide (since 2018). We continue with actions to prevent, prosecute and punish femicide violence. It must be said that we have been working with state women’s institutes, as well as with state prosecutors’ offices so that there is no impunity,” she said.
On the other hand, it reported a 6.91% year-on-year reduction in total theft in the first seven months, to 317,175.
“In common crimes, most of them have decreased and we continue to call from the peace tables to strengthen coordination with state and municipal authorities. In total theft we have a decrease of 29.5% as of July (since the beginning of the Administration),” he commented.
These figures are released after it was revealed that homicides in Mexico fell 6.68% in 2023 to 31,062, the third consecutive year of decline after the most violent year in history, 2020, with 36,773 victims, according to updated data from the SSPC.— (With information from Peter Paul Cortes).
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2024-08-28 17:06:12