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The most recent official figures indicate that in this six-year period, until last July, 191,143 research folders by intentional homicideof which 17,660 correspond so far this year.
According to the latest report of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security SystemLast July, 2,546 investigation files for intentional homicide were registered, which is equivalent to a decrease of 14.5 percent compared to the 2,981 in the same period in 2019 at the beginning of the administration. Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In 2024, 44 percent of the total homicides In the country they were concentrated in six states:
- Guanajuato with 1,825
- Baja California with 1,424
- State of Mexico with 1,384
- Chihuahua with 1,181
- Jalisco with one thousand 122
- Warrior with a thousand 005
In this six-year term, intentional homicides evolved due to clashes among the cartels racketeering who, through the use of drones and artisanal mines, increased violence in search of expanding their territories.
Security specialists, consulted by MILLENNIUMagreed that the use of technology such as drones was an advance for criminal organizations during the administration of the President Andrés Manuel López Obradorsince these devices are used for intelligence work and violence against rival groups and authorities at different levels.
“The evolution regarding the way in which, particularly organized criminal groups, are implementing new practices and new technologies to carry out confrontations between groups and attack certain authorities.
“Starting in 2021, right after the pandemic, they began to use drones to carry out surveillance activities, gather information for intelligence on these criminal groups and then use them to drop homemade bombs in certain places,” said Armando. RodrÃguez, intelligence security specialist.
He use of these artifactswhich have also caused casualties in the armed forces, also responds to the operational deployment carried out by the federal government in both Army and the Navy to carry out public safety operations.
“There has been a professionalization and an increase in the war capacity of organized crime groups such as the use of armed drones, antipersonnel mines, and surface-to-air missiles,” said specialist David Saucedo.
For the experts, a change in the security strategy must be implemented and one of the relevant points that must be addressed by the administration of Claudia Sheinbaum It is that of the municipal police, to strengthen them and stop them being vulnerable to organized crime.
“Yes or yes there has to be a strengthening process and that is perhaps the greatest point of contrast not only with López Obrador but with all previous administrations, the abandonment that exists in these police institutions is impressive and it would have to start in places that They are strategic places to guarantee a greater impact and effect against organized crime,” commented Armando RodrÃguez.
In addition, it should also be reconsidered whether the capture of high-profile drug traffickers such as Rafael Caro Quintero and Ovidio Guzmán, carried out in López Obrador’s six-year termcontribute to reducing violence in the states where their criminal organizations operate.
“What the capture of drug traffickers did was cause wars within criminal groups, succession wars, it made criminal organizations only violent, that is, strategies for capturing and extraditing drug traffickers only cause an increase in violence.” , added David Saucedo.
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