More than 31 million Americans visited Mexico in 2016, the National Travel & Tourism Office says, and State Department data shows there were reports of … Agencies in Mexico City. Massacres. According to the city's Mesa de Seguridad y Justicia, or security and justice board, there were 65 homicides in April, 56 in March, 43 in February and 72 in January. Sun 21 Jan 2018 14.25 EST Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 13.35 EST. Mexico recorded more than 33,000 homicides in 2018, the highest number since the country began keeping records. The Mexican city of Tijuana had 2,519 murders in 2018, an increase of 40 percent from 2017, which at the time had been a record-setting year for homicides, KQED reported.
Homicide rates decreased in many of the country’s most violent cities, including St. Louis, Baltimore, and New Orleans. 28 escaped, 20 spared as workers, 75 spared as unarmed captives. The Guardian - Back to home. But according to FBI data, the national murder rate dropped in 2018 for the second consecutive year, to 5.0 murders per 100,000 people — a sign that the short-term increase may be over. Soaring levels of drug-related violence made 2017 Mexico's most murderous year on record, according to government statistics released Sunday. Mexico saw a record number of murders in the first six months of the year, with an average 94 killings each day, according to the Mexico News Daily. A report released by the Secretariat of Public Security on Monday showed there were a total 34,582 murders last year, a 2.5 percent increase from … 465 prisoners. Homicides in Mexico rose by 16% in the first half of 2018, as the country again broke its own records for violence. Invalid Date, MEXICO’S most popular holiday hotspot has become overrun with drug gangs, as violence in the tourist party town escalates to unprecedented levels. Mexico Registers Its Highest Number Of Homicides On Record : Parallels The country racked up nearly 30,000 homicides in 2017, the most since it began reporting the statistic in … To be sure, the homicides documented in Mexico cannot all be linked directly to the drug war, and distinguishing drug-war violence from the raw totals can be fraught with challenges. Mexico’s national statistics office (INEGI) also calculated … TRENDING: Maxine Waters Scorched After Claiming the Real ‘Looting’ Is ‘Predatory Lending’ The first three months of 2019 have seen a 9.6% increase in murders in Mexico, official figures suggest.
Mexican authorities opened 33,341 murder investigations in 2018, the highest number ever, the country’s Interior Ministry reported Sunday. The country’s overall murder rate still remains far below those recorded in the ’90s. In 2019, a total of 44,576 homicides were registered in Mexico, 87 murder victims more than the death toll reported a year earlier. 15 captured and 36 killed out of a total of 54 Texan men.