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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October 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 moreCulpable Homicides against Women Back on the Rise in Mexico
By KELIN DILLON Culpable homicides against women have been rising in Mexico across the course of 2022’s summer, reaching new year-over-year levels of violence when compared to data from June, July and August of 2021. In Mexico, culpable homicide means that a death was caused by accident or without intent, and is differentiated from femicides and intentional homicides in that
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 moreMexico Reaches Record Levels of Extortion in 2022
By KELIN DILLON Reports of extortion have reached record highs in Mexico this year under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) revealing shortages across the country in products like produce and poultry have resulted in price gouging and extortion nationwide, adding to Mexico’s widespread
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 moreHomicides on Rise, Contrary to Mexican Government’s Claims
By KELIN DILLON Though Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection may have detailed the country’s year-to-year homicide rate reduction during a press conference on Monday, May 24, continued reports of rampant violence throughout the country have put the veracity of the government’s purported lower rates into question. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Security System
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
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