Murders spike in Mexico

[brassmonkey]

May was Mexico's bloodiest month in at least 20 years and homicides are up sharply in 2017 compared with last year, new government crime statistics show.

Statistics published Tuesday by the Interior Department said 2,186 people were murdered last month. The previous monthly high was 2,131 in May 2011, according to a review of publicly available records that date back to 1997.

During the first five months of 2017, there were 9,916 killings nationwide - an increase of about 30 percent over the 7,638 slain during the same period last year.

"Pretty grim. Not shocking, because we've seen this for months," Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope said. "But, yeah, it's really grim."

Mexico launched a militarized offensive over a decade ago to combat drug cartels that plague parts of the country. Homicides fell somewhat after peaking in 2011 but have risen again.

At the state level, Baja California Sur saw the biggest jump in the first five months of 2017. After registering 36 killings during the same period in 2016, that spiked by 369 percent to 169 this year.

There were also significant increases in Veracruz (93 percent), Quintana Roo (89 percent) and Sinaloa (76 percent).

On Wednesday, Veracruz Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes said at a news conference that seven bags containing two dismembered bodies had been left outside the personal office of the state security chief Tuesday night. Armed men had also attacked three workers hanging a billboard with photographs and a reward offered for area criminal suspects.

Hope said the violence is being driven in part by "the weakening of the Sinaloa drug cartel" - whose top boss, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was extradited to face drug charges in the United States earlier this year. Hope also noted "the parallel rise of the Jalisco (New Generation) cartel."

In Baja California Sur in particular, Hope said, a Sinaloa faction is battling for control both against rivals within the cartel and externally against Jalisco. Hope also cited increased heroin trafficking, difficulties implementing a new criminal justice system and insufficient federal police response to the crime surge.

Total homicides for the January-May period declined from 2016 in just four states - Campeche, Coahuila, Mexico State and Nuevo Leon - and nowhere did the drop exceed 6 percent.



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[czarina]

Very sad...I love Cancun so much, but it's time to call it quits

[xXXtesy10]

this great copy paste death news. next stop bestgore!

[pimpmaster9000]

how ironic that the fight against drugs leads to even more drugs and violence...arrest a kingpin like el chapo and you will have a war on your hands for his turf by rivals....

[celandina]

Almost as bad as Chicago..

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by celandina

Almost as bad as Chicago..

worse! you don't know the difference? city and a country

[Tasty1]

Originally Posted by czarina

Very sad...I love Cancun so much, but it's time to call it quits

Safer as a tourist in Cancun than living in the USA.

Are Americans safer in Mexico than at home? ? Lonely Planet blog

I don't like cancun, so many better places.

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

worse! you don't know the difference? city and a country

Not at all . At least these guys kill each other (win win situation for all). In Chicago they kill bystanders, kids, elderly. I mean most of you gangbangers are cowards and only capable of drive by shooting and jumping someone in a group.

[celandina]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

worse! you don't know the difference? city and a country

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by celandina

yeah make jokes on killings ha ha ha

[kane]

Originally Posted by crucifissio

how ironic that the fight against drugs leads to even more drugs and violence...arrest a kingpin like el chapo and you will have a war on your hands for his turf by rivals....

There is a good book called The Last Narco that talks a lot about the hunt for El Chapo, but it also chronicles how the war on drugs has helped pull Mexico into the chaotic, violent place it is now.

At its core, the idea is that when all the poppy fields that existed in the hills and small towns throughout Mexico were destroyed, those people moved to the cities hoping to find a job and a way to survive. So many people flooded into the cities that there literally wasn't enough food, housing, or jobs for them all so it led to a massive increase in violence. At the same time, the legit businessmen that were in the drug trade left because they didn't want to be killed or sent to jail and it was taken over by criminals who weren't afraid to destroy their competition.

[brassmonkey]

the greed is the problem not the manufacture. mexico allows gangs this is korazzzy! make the drugs a government thing crush the cartels!

Originally Posted by kane

There is a good book called The Last Narco that talks a lot about the hunt for El Chapo, but it also chronicles how the war on drugs has helped pull Mexico into the chaotic, violent place it is now.

At its core, the idea is that when all the poppy fields that existed in the hills and small towns throughout Mexico were destroyed, those people moved to the cities hoping to find a job and a way to survive. So many people flooded into the cities that there literally wasn't enough food, housing, or jobs for them all so it led to a massive increase in violence. At the same time, the legit businessmen that were in the drug trade left because they didn't want to be killed or sent to jail and it was taken over by criminals who weren't afraid to destroy their competition.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

worse! you don't know the difference? city and a country

Pretty sure you are meant to count per capita murders in order to judge what he said.

[MatureKing]

Why they don't think about tourist people