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| Last Month Was The Deadliest In Mexico In 20 Years |
| 2017-06-23 |
| [BUZZFEED] May was the deadliest month in Mexico since 1997 with three people killed every hour, according to the Mexican government. There were 2,186 homicides last month, according to figures from the Executive Secretary of the National System for Public Security which go back 20 years. In some states which were previously considered peaceful, like Baja Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Sur and Nayarit, the rate doubled. "This is the overwhelming and absolute failure of Peña Nieto’s public safety policy," Alejandro Hope, a Mexican security analyst, told BuzzFeed News. Hope and others attribute the uptick to a pie fight between criminal groups, and the violent fragmentation within the Sinaloa Cartel headed by Joaquín Guzmán, known as "El Chapo." Kidnapping, extortion, and car-theft rates also increased in May compared to the previous month. A spokesperson at the Ministry of the Interior declined to comment on the homicide rate when reached by BuzzFeed News. The record figure is likely to further hurt President Enrique Peña Nieto’s low approval rating, which was most recently battered by the revelation that the government is spying on journalists and activists through spyware on their phones. |
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