Six Mexican Women Murdered Per Day in March
This brings the rate of intentional homicides against women in Mexico to 621 incidents during the first quarter of 2024
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Mexico, the Deadliest Latin American Country for Children
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán —The constant climate of extreme violence in which Mexico has lived since the start of the so-called drug war in 2006 has left a huge red stain in the modern history of the country. From 2006 to 2021 alone, it is estimated that 350,000 people were killed in the country because of drug wars and power
Read moreOctober Makes Mexico’s Most Violent Month of 2022
By KELIN DILLON Only weeks after hactivist group Guacamaya revealed to the public that 72 percent of Mexico is under control of organized crime groups, Mexico experienced its most violent month of the year yet, registering 2,481 intentional homicides throughout Oct. 2022. A total of 92 intentional murders were committed on Monday, Oct. 31 alone, says information publicized by Mexico’s
Read moreExtortion Complaints Increase in Mexico City
By MARK LORENZANA In the last year, complaints for the crime of extortion increased in most of the boroughs in Mexico City. In 2020 there were 54 complaints filed at the Cuauhtémoc Mayor’s Office, but by 2021 the complaints grew to 73. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), from January to
Read moreCJNG Members behind Violence in Orizaba, Veracruz
By MARK LORENZANA A shootout that lasted more than an hour on Monday, Sept. 12, forced the residents of Orizaba, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, to run for cover in a day of violence that left an armed civilian dead. According to police reports, the shooting took place at 4 p.m. in the city center, where armed individuals
Read moreMore Missing Women in Mexico City under Sheinbaum’s Watch
By MARK LORENZANA The number of missing women in Mexico City has increased 900 percent so far under the administration of Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum, compared to the previous administration headed by Miguel Ángel Mancera. According to Mexico’s National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, the number of missing women in the capital increased from 93 cases (registered
Read moreUnder Sheinbaum, Homicides Surge in Mexico City
By KELIN DILLON While the national figures of Mexico’s enduring homicide problem have made headlines across the week of May 23, the spotlight has now been transfixed at the local level as new data reveals that the Mexico City government has broken homicide records underneath the administration of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. Though Sheinbaum has made a recent show of Mexico
Read moreDrug Trafficking in Mexico up 40 Percent under AMLO
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the three years since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office with his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) reform, drug trafficking has risen by more than 40 percent, according to the government’s own statistics. During 2018, the last year of the government of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, 58,588 police files were
Read moreNumber of Femicides Continue to Mount in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Last year was the most violence in Mexican history for women, with 1,040 victims of femicide in the country, the highest figure since this high-impact crime began to be reported in official statistics in 2015. This means that, on average, two women were killed each day because of their gender; most of them in
Read moreFemicides in Mexico Reach Record High in August
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Between July and August, the number of gender-based murders of women in Mexico increased 57.3 percent, to a record total of 107 femicides, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). The August femicides represent the highest number since records first began to be kept in Mexico in 2015, the
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