A alleged act of revenge ended the life of a young man Approximately 20 years old, whose body was lying in the basketball courts of the Head of Juarez Cabeza Unit, in the Iztapalapa Mayor’s Office, Mexico City. There were residents of the place who reported the event yesterday morning.
On Thursday night, in the Villas de Ecatepec neighborhood, in the State of Mexico, men aboard a truck tried He allowed fleeing at full speed of the site and thus saving his heritage, but above all his life. The video camera installed in its helmet captured the event, which was spread through social networks.
A 41 -year -old man and his two children of 12 and nine did not run with the same fate. The early hours of January 19, a command intercepted them when they traveled through the Los Angeles sector, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, the father wanted to safeguard his children and tried to reverse his unit, but the armed subjects opened fire regardless They were inside. Dad died on the site and minors when they received medical attention. The crime had wide resonance.
These types of events occur daily throughout the country, generating fear and uncertainty and, thus explaining, because crime and violence are the main concern for the Mexican population for this year 2025, according to the study prepared by Ipsos.
The market research and consulting company revealed since 2023 that the two referred issues are what disturbs Mexicans, as well as inflation and climate change.
By 2024, the perspective did not change much, just from place. Crime and violence were first positioned the last 12 months, followed by unemployment, inflation, poverty and inequality, and political-financial corruption.
Crime and violence diminish the trust of Mexicans
The most recent Ipsos study: What worries the world? (corresponding to January 2025), offers a detailed panorama about the main concerns of Mexicans, but the response of the respondents does not surprise much.
- Crime and violence: 56%
- Inflation: 35%
- Unemployment: 31%
- Corruption: 24%
- Poverty: 28%
Regarding the concern for crime and violence, our country went from December 2024 to January 2025 from the third to fourth position worldwide, only after Chile (66%), Sweden (65%) and Peru (61%). The countries that were less concerned with the subject were Hungary (11%) and Poland (7%).
World concerns
Worldwide, inflation, crime and violence, poverty, unemployment and corruption, both political and financial, position themselves in that order as the main concerns for the population.
These problems not only influence the economic stability of countries, but also deteriorate confidence in institutions and generate an environment of global uncertainty.
On the course of the country, the results are divided almost by half, 52% consider that Mexico is in the right direction, while 48% believe otherwise. Mexico is “optimistic.”
