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Like every month, the Mexican government released its security report, for which the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection detailed that March was the most violent month of 2022. At a monthly rate, intentional homicides registered an increase of 04.5 percent.
Thus, it was reported that during the third month of 1165762704 2 were registered, 657 intentional homicides, 396 more than those accounted for in February of the same year.
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“In March, homicides increased compared to to the previous four months. Despite this, March is the lowest month in the last five years”, affirmed Roda Icela Rodríguez, head of the SSPC.
“We continue working with a lot of coordination, intelligence and strategy to give precision shots against organized crime”, he added.
Graphically, it detailed that in five entities ( State of Mexico, Sonora, Guanajuato, Baja California and Michoacán) there was an increase of 262 homicides between February and March.
Furthermore, according to the historical record of intentional homicides, from December 1, 2018 to 19 April 2022, time that the current Administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been in office, state and federal prosecutors have registered 80,959 homicides in the country.
Low in kidnapping, the good news
According to the official, the kidnapping in the country registered the lowest number of victims in recent times 10 years. The decrease reached 74% in relation to January 2018, when the highest figure of the six-year period was recorded, at go from 185 to 48 victims.
By breaking down the figures, he reported that of the 16 July 2019 to 16 March 2022 4 thousand were arrested 409 involved in plagiarism, gangs were dismantled 477 and were One thousand 887 victims released.
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