Due to bad strategies or failed strategies of various administrations, violence has been growing and growing and we find ourselves in the situation we are in today (…) prevention and social support is a strategy that we will see if it works in the long term, while we have to try to reduce and dismantle the gangs that generate violence”.
Irene Tello Arista, executive director of Impunidad Cero.
High-impact crimes such as intentional homicide, extortion, intentional injuries, robbery in general and rape, have increased so far during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, compared to the data of the last government of Enrique Peña Grandson; while the murders double the figures of the period of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), between December 2018 —the date of the beginning of the López Obrador government— and May of this year, 99,784 investigation files for intentional homicides are recorded at the national level, which It represents 66.4% more than the 59,938 cases registered in the same period, but during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (December 2012 to May 2016).
While when comparing the figures of murders with the same period of government of Felipe Calderón (December 2006 to May 2010), the percentage rises by 105.4%, because in said administration, by then there were 48,580 investigation folders per the crime of culpable homicide.
A similar case with extortion, since in this administration they have grown 33.2% and 68.4% compared to the governments of Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón, respectively. Until last May, 30,426 investigations for extortion have been registered at the national level in López Obrador’s mandate.
In the case of violations, the data from this government account for at least 65,899 investigation folders for facts related to this crime; 47% and 31% more than those accounted for in the mandates of Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón, respectively.
Likewise, the crimes of intentional injuries and theft in all its forms have also increased during the current administration compared to the last government, however, they maintain a slight decrease in relation to the records of Felipe Calderón.
The data indicates that, between December 2018 and May 2022, there are 546,838 investigations for the crime of intentional injuries, 7.8% more than a similar period of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto and 15% less than what was registered with Felipe Calderón, when for May 2010 there were 647,804 of these crimes.
Meanwhile, all the thefts already add up to 2 million 294,669 investigation folders so far in the current government; 0.5% more than the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto and 0.1% less than the data of the mandate of Felipe Calderón, since during similar periods of the past six-year terms, 2 million 297,652 robberies were committed with Calderón Hinojosa and another 2 million 281,988, but with Peña grandson.
no progress
Dr. Rodrigo Peña, a political sociologist specialized in legitimacy, delinquency and criminal governance, considered that the strategy in terms of “hugs not bullets”, which in reality supposes an effort of spontaneous and contingent territorial presence in conflictive territories, which is It is fading to the extent that various areas of the country are in need of help.
And it is that he pointed out that said strategy, since it is not developed with the support of police institutions or the administration of justice, what it promises is a scenario of impunity.
The also Executive Director of the Seminar on Violence and Peace of El Colegio de México, added that although there are no major changes in the implementation of security strategies between the governments of Calderón, Peña Nieto and López Obrador, a different narrative can be observed. how they express, from their perspective, what is happening in the country in terms of violence.
Meanwhile, Irene Tello Arista, executive director of Impunidad Cero, considered that the high crime rates are the result of the failed security strategies of at least three governments.
“Currently it seems that there is no strategy, they tried to create the National Guard, and centralize the security strategy, and thus avoid direct confrontation with certain criminal groups, thinking that the figures were going to drop,” he stressed.
Tello argued that an idea that is part of the current strategy is that people linked to drug trafficking are only dedicated to that and did not take into account that organized crime in Mexico has evolved and is not only dedicated to drug trafficking. of drugs, but to crimes such as extortion, illegal logging, planting, human trafficking, etc.
“Unfortunately what we are seeing with the security strategy is that they are being allowed to venture into other areas of crime,” he said.
The expert added that it is not known in a concrete way what the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the FIU are doing on this issue.
In conclusion, the specialist lamented that “due to bad strategies or failed strategies of various administrations, violence has been growing and growing and we find ourselves in the situation we are in today (…) prevention and social support is a strategy that we will see if it works in the long term, while you have to try to reduce and dismantle the gangs that generate violence”.
Cardinal warns about organized crime checkpoints
They denounce floor charges to parishes in Jalisco
The Cardinal of Guadalajara, José Francisco Robles Ortega, reported that last week he was intercepted at an organized crime checkpoint in the northern area of Jalisco.
The priest lamented that it is not the first time that this has happened to him, because, he said, he has experienced these interrogations when he travels to Totatiche and Villa Guerrero, towns located in the north of the state, near its border area, where members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel , (CJNG), they dispute the control of the transfer of drugs, and other criminal activities with the Sinaloa Cartel, “that is ordinary, it is not the first time that it happens to me, I have already gone to those directions and those checkpoints are established there, with heavy weapons, with long weapons. Two checkpoints on the same route,” he said.
According to Robles Ortega, there are cases where in some areas of northern Jalisco the consent of the criminals who control ‘the square’ must be requested, to carry out the patron saint festivities, and they must be given half of the income obtained in the festivities. .
Likewise, he expressed that “we should not get used to it, but it is the daily bread. I went this past week, I went there to the north of the state, on the border with Zacatecas, precisely, and I was also detained by two checkpoints, and obviously they are organized crime checkpoints and they require you to say where you come from, where you are going, to what does he do, what does he do, that is like the most normal and the most natural thing”, assured the archbishop. (Drafting)
