We have not reached the first month of 2025 and the homicide figures in Peru are alarming, making clear the zero effort made by the Government and the Minister of the Interior to stop this bloody streak. Yesterday, the Death Information System (SINADEF) reported that as of January 20, 106 deaths due to homicide were recorded: the highest number compared to similar periods since 2017.
This entity, attached to the Ministry of Health (Minsa), announced that between January 1 and 19, 2024 in Peru there were 98 homicides; while in 2023, 73; in 2022, 91; in 2021, 69; in 2020, 78; in 2019, 59; in 2018, 37; and in 2017, 36.
Other crimes that occurred in the last hours in Lima, Callao and other regions of Peru should be added to this figure.
It also reported that 40% of the murders in 2025 have taken place on public roads, 30% died in health facilities, while 12% occurred in their homes. Lima and Callao, La Libertad and Piura in the north, and Ica in the south, are the regions that concentrate almost 70% of homicide records.
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According to data from data analyst Juan Carbajal, our capital is undoubtedly the most convulsed and since January several crimes have been reported, which, together with the first port in Peru (Callao), totals 41. Until January 20, Lima It has 28 homicides, followed on the list by Callao and La Libertad, with 13 murders each, most of them committed by hitmen. Then there is Piura and Ica, with 9 and 8 homicides, respectively. In this last region, journalist Gastón Medina was murdered at the door of his house.
Cajamarca also appears on the list, with 5 murders, and then Madre de Dios, Puno and Tumbes, with 4 crimes each. Arequipa and Loreto, which closed last year with high figures of violence, recorded 3 murders each in the first 19 days of January.
