Campaign season in Mexico has seen a rash of murders, as organised crime seeks to cement its influence no matter which parties win. The government needs to keep trying to break bonds between criminals and authorities, beginning with efforts tailored to the country’s hardest-hit areas.
State of Baja California ranks first in female homicides
La Voz de la Frontera
TIJUANA (KYMA, KECY) - Baja California ranks first with the highest homicides in women since the start of 2021.
La Voz de la Frontera reported 38 women were murdered in January throughout the state. Thirty-four homicides were reported in Guanajuato and 26 in Chihuahua, according to data provided by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System.
Other states such as Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Tlaxcala, and Yucatan do not report a single homicide case.
Sources add the violence against women has been high in Baja California, adding 148 assaults on women, while 58 reported having been a victim of rape.
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A vicious attack during a funeral leaves nine dead in Celaya, Guanajuato.
CELAYA, GUANAJUATO, Mexico (Times Media Mexico) – An armed group attacked several people attending a wake that left at least nine dead in Celaya, Guanajuato.
Local authorities reported that the attack occurred in a private home in the Arboledas de San Rafael neighborhood in Celaya.
The report states that a group of unknown, heavily armed men arrived at the place and shot at a dozen people attending.
Shortly after that, municipal police and relief units arrived at the scene and located the dead bodies of six individuals on the public road, two others inside the building, and one more died while receiving medical attention.
By Yucatan Times on December 10, 2020
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Mexican marines escort five alleged drug traffickers of the Zeta drug cartel in front of an RPG-7 rocket launcher, hand grenades, firearms, cocaine and military uniforms seized to alleged members of the Zetas drug traffickers cartel and presented to press on June 9, 2011 at the Navy Secretaryship in Mexico City. Fiven men were arrested and more than two hundred rifles, eleven pistols, military uniforms, differents caliber ammunitions and more than 200 kg of cocaine were seized in the Coahuila and Nuevo Leon States by the Navy. AFP PHOTO/ Yuri CORTEZ (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP)
As Mexico’s relentless militarization continues to whet appetites: in the last decade, the United Kingdom increased its arms export licenses and included Mexico in its list of “priority countries for arms exports”.