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When presenting the statistics of the 2021, the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), gave to know that the year closed with 33, 375 intentional homicides and different massacres that hit the country, despite the slight decrease in cases compared to the previous year.
In other words, per day, Mexico averaged 91 violent deaths or worse, four people were killed every hour somewhere in Mexico.
According to the official report, there was an improvement in the figures in cities that had become almost symbols of drug trafficking such as Tijuana or Juárez. While he recognized the emergence of new trouble spots such as Cajeme, in Sonora, or Zamora, in Michoacán. Six States concentrate, in fact, 50% of the victims for murders: Guanajuato, Baja California, Michoacán, State of Mexico, Chihuahua and Jalisco.
Despite the numbers, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador insists that there is a slight downward trend (-4%) during the last two years. But the average of more than 90 daily murders continues well above the worst period of the so-called drug war, when Felipe Calderón was president, who in the middle of the six-year term added 41,375 kills, by 106,000 added by Tabasco, after three years.
Mexico has already recorded the two most violent years in its history in the first two of AMLO’s term, with 34,690 murder victims in 2020 and 33,554 in 2020.
In addition, Mexico added 1,004 femicides in 2021, that is, more than the 978 in 2020, which implies a year-on-year rise of 2.66%.
Finally, aside from murders, the country also registered an increase in some sections sensitive, such as theft from passers-by, which rose by 9.3% and in public transport a 004.6%. While the extortion grew a . 3% and violation a 28%.
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