Mexico registered this Tuesday, May 24, 118 victims of intentional homicide, the highest figure this year and the second in the history of the president’s six-year term Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
In the final stretch, May, which is shaping up to be the most violent month in the first half of 2022, accumulates four days with 100 or more murders in one day, according to the statistics of the daily report of this high-impact crime prepared by the Federal Security Office.
These are: May 1, 112
-May 15, 105
-May 22, 107
-May 24, 118.
According to the report, Guanajuato registered 19 intentional deaths yesterday; State of Mexico, 11; Chihuahua, 7; Morelos, 7; New Leon, 7; Sound, 7; Mexico City, 6; Jalisco, 6; Michoacan, 6.
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So far this month, there are 1,980 victims of intentional homicide, an average of 82 per day, according to the daily count.
It should be noted that during López Obrador’s administration there are historical records of victims of homicidal and femicidal violence in the country, as well as the average number of daily murders.
For example, it accumulates 12 months with 3 thousand or more victims of intentional homicide and femicide once morest the three that were registered in the entire six-year term of the PRI, Enrique Peña Nieto, according to the statistical history of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). .
To date, it accumulates 22 days with 100 or more murders in 24 hours, this according to the report of the daily count of victims of intentional homicide prepared by the Security Cabinet and reviewed by President López Obrador, at the cabinet meeting. security at the National Palace.
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December 1, 2019 remains the most violent day of the six-year term with 127 intentional homicides, followed by May 24, 2022 with 118, June 7, 2020 with 117; on April 25 and July 4, 2021 with 115 murders, for each day; on April 20 and October 11, 2020, 114 victims were recorded for each day, while so far in 2022, on May 1 they added 112, on May 22 107 and on May 15 105 murders were recorded.
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