Sheinbaum highlights -12% reduction in intentional homicides

Release time：2025-02-15
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The Mexican president assures that it is because of the national security strategy.

  The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, stressed that January was the lowest month in intentional homicides at -12%, and work is done every day in the security cabinet, with coordination between agencies and state authorities.

"There is a reduction, in four months, of -12% in homicides, and January 2025 has been the lowest January in the last eight years, at least," Sheinbaum Pardo said in her morning conference.

  The president mentioned that in the security strategy, intelligence and investigation are given "a very important weight" to strengthen the investigation folders and make arrests.

"And it is striking that it is practically the only state where homicides have increased," he said, mentioning that León is one of the cities with the highest number of people in poverty.

"Guanajuato is one of the states with the lowest average salary, it is the state with the greatest addiction to drugs, so it is not only security, but it is the result of a model. We are not going to put politics above support for the population, we are going to coordinate with the governor and her team to be able to reduce these crime rates, we need coordination," he said.

  On the other hand, in a report by the security cabinet, Marcela Figueroa, head of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), stated that in states such as Sinaloa there has also been a drop in these crimes.

222 captured in northern border operation

During the five days that 10,000 National Guard agents have been deployed on the country's northern border, 222 alleged criminals have been arrested, reported the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch.

The official mentioned that 1,242 kilograms of drugs have been seized, including 8.6 kilograms of fentanyl. Likewise, 106 firearms and 19,715 cartridges have been seized.

The detainees are 43 more than what was reported the previous day, as well as six more weapons seized in 24 hours, since until February 9 100 weapons had been seized, 13 of them from the United States.

The deployment of the 10,000 elements is throughout Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. As a result, 648 magazines have been seized, as well as 167 vehicles and 20 properties, García Harfuch said.

In Tijuana, Baja California alone, the secretary said, 205 packages hidden in the double bottom of a trailer were seized, which hid 537 kilos of methamphetamine and 60 kilos of cocaine.

However, he acknowledged that extortion is a high-impact crime that the federal government has not been able to stop since the last administration and in the last report an increase of 21.1 percent was recorded.

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