Mexico sees 2,020 killings in March

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Mexico has surpassed 2,000 homicides in a month for the first time since the summer of 2011 and had more killings in the first quarter of 2017 than in the start of any year in at least two decades, according to data released Friday.

Unlike 2011, when bloody cartel clashes in Ciudad Juarez drove the national toll to new heights, the killings pushing the 2017 total have been spread across a number of states. Authorities attribute them to vicious turf battles resulting from breakdowns in the leadership of some cartels and the splintering of others into smaller gangs.

The southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, continues to be the homicide leader, with 550 during the first three months of the year.

But Baja California Sur with 133 slayings during the first quarter had the largest year-on-year percentage increase, skyrocketing 682 percent from the 17 homicides it had during the same period in 2016. A territorial dispute between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels is believed to be driving much of the violence in the southern part of the peninsula popular with foreign tourists.

Nationally, there were 2,020 homicides in March, up about 11 percent from February. For January through March, the national total was 5,775 killings, up 29 percent from the same three months last year.

Pioquinto Damian Huato, a business leader in the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo, led an anti-crime crusade until an attempt was made on his life that resulted in the death of his daughter-in-law in 2014.

"Every now and then bagged bodies appear in Chilpancingo," he said. "Yesterday three appeared." The leader of the state's leftist Democratic Revolution Party, Demetrio Saldivar, also was killed Wednesday night in Chilpancingo.

"I live in my home with armored doors to be able to protect my family," Damian Huato said. "How could I go out when they could kill me in any moment?"

Mexico's surge in violence comes at a time when legislators are debating a national security law that would have implications for the military's continued role in domestic security. Rising violence could pose a problem for the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party of President Enrique Pena Nieto in next year's presidential election.

Other states seeing significantly more homicides this year include the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, which registered 372 through March, up 94 percent from the same period last year. A former Veracruz governor, Javier Duarte, was arrested last weekend in Guatemala after six months on the run from corruption charges.

Chihuahua state, home to Ciudad Juarez, is also seeing more violence this year. Its 384 homicides through March were 78 percent more than the same period last year.

Mexico sees 2,020 killings in March, worst month since 2011 - ABC News
 
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In 2016 there were almost 16,000 murders in the US, 604 in Canada in 2015 and just over 600 in the UK in 2015 (with the UK's population twice that of Canada's).
 
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In 2016 there were almost 16,000 murders in the US, 604 in Canada in 2015 and just over 600 in the UK in 2015 (with the UK's population twice that of Canada's).
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Yeah, but the Britons are exceptionally criuel. They can murder you just by talk-talk-talking you to death.
 
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Government statistics showed that 2,186 murders were committed in May, surpassing the previous monthly high of 2,131 in May 2011, according to a review of records that date back to 1997.

Mexico recorded 9,916 murders in the first five months of 2017, roughly a 30% increase over the same period last year.

The situation has hit such calamitous levels in states such as Guerrero, to south of Mexico City – where armed groups are fighting for control of the heroin industry – that morgues there have been unable to handle the dead bodies.

Analysts say the surging violence stems from various factors, including the increased cultivation of heroin to meet US demand and the legalisation of marijuana in some US states, which has caused cartel profits to plummet and prompted criminal groups to diversify into crimes such as kidnap and extortion.

The crackdown on drug cartels and organised crime has consumed Mexico for more than a decade. Then-president Felipe Calderón declared war on the cartels upon taking office in December 2006 and sent soldiers into the streets to stamp out illegal drug activities.

The ensuing conflict has cost an estimated 200,000 lives, left 30,000 Mexicans missing and failed to improve policing, implement the rule of law or stop human rights abuses.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...aches-20-year-high?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnworld
 
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Wait, Mexico has seen a huge increase in firearm ownership. Shouldn't that have made the country safer?

Mexico Weapons Imports Increased 331% since 2011
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Like the fullauto weapons given to the cartels by OBOMBA and HOLDER in fast and furious?
What are you trying to do, turn the place into CHICAGO?

Mexico’s arms imports grew by 331 percent over the last five years, compared to 2006-2010, raising more concerns over the government’s reluctance to scale back the militarization of the drug war.
(from Bars link)
According to SIPRI, weapons imports to Mexico included “a variety of transport aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft, basic ground-attack aircraft, armed helicopters, patrol boats and light armoured vehicles.”
also from Bar's link

I think your NON EXISTENT research skills need some work there doood,
or learn how to read, or get someone to proof your posts before you hit post or something.

..or did I just turn your link into FAKE NEWS?
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I read a long article from some think tank that blames the situation on corrupt cops and weak leadership regarding Policing.

How about improving the Mexicans economic situation so they don't get enticed to become criminals to make money............


Mexico, our NAFTA partner. Which makes it all the more troubling that Mexico is poised to overtake Syria as the most violent country on the planet.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a U.K.-based think tank, claimed in 2016 that Mexico had recorded more than 23,000 homicides, putting it just behind Syria in the list of the world’s most violent countries. The Mexican government questioned the decision to include Mexico in the Armed Conflict Survey, saying “the existence of criminal groups is not a sufficient criterion to speak of a non-international armed conflict.”

Despite this objection, the rate at which homicides are taking place has undoubtedly been increasing. In contrast, the death toll in Syria, which is still in the grip of a bloody civil war, has been on the decline. According to the latest figures from the Violations Documentation Center in Syria, fatalities as a result of the conflict fell from 1,171 in May 2016, to 665 in May 2017.
 
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I read a long article from some think tank that blames the situation on corrupt cops and weak leadership regarding Policing.

How about improving the Mexicans economic situation so they don't get enticed to become criminals to make money............
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Good idea. If we improve their economic situation, they can become criminals for the entertainment value.
 
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Bill Clinton Apologizes to Mexico for the Drug War, Now It's President Obama's Turn to End It

At a speech in Mexico last week, former President Bill Clinton seemingly apologized for the destruction unleashed upon Mexico by the war on drugs.

Addressing a group of business leaders, students, and politicians, Clinton said, “I wish you had no narco-trafficking, but it’s not really your fault.” He explained that so-called “successes” in the U.S.-led drug war in other countries had not eliminated the drug trade, but rather just pushed it into Mexico and Central America. “I apologize for that,” he said.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the apology the U.S. owes Mexico. The U.S. gives hundreds of millions of dollars in military and police aid to Mexico each year – the vast majority of which is funneled into the disastrous drug war.

The U.S. government has spent roughly $3 billion since 2008 on the drug war in Mexico alone. The results of this massive drug war escalation have been catastrophic: more than 100,000 people murdered; more than 25,000 people disappeared; hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes; tens of thousands of orphans; incalculable psychological trauma; numerous mass graves in Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and other states – each with dozens, even hundreds of unidentified bodies; and a dramatic increase in human rights violations committed by Mexican security forces, including thousands of documented cases of torture, disappearances and extrajudicial executions.

The revelations of direct participation on the part of local, state and federal security forces in the disappearance of the 43 students in Guerrero shows the depth of the corruption and carnage in Mexico, much of which is fueled by the corrosive, U.S.-funded war on drugs.

These devastating consequences are typical of militarized strategies – like the drug war strategy enforced in Colombia during and after the Clinton years. Such policies are not only ineffective at reducing drug use or supply, but are also proven to increase violence related to the drug trade. And lest we forget, it was prohibition that created the illicit drug trade in the first place.
Bill Clinton Apologizes to Mexico for the Drug War, Now It's President Obama's Turn to End It | Drug Policy Alliance

...and of course Obomba (BAR'S FRIEND) gave only certain cartels full auto weapons so they could take over from the smaller gangs that didn't work for the CIA

A Dark Legacy: Hillary Clinton’s Role in the Mexican Drug War

Mexico, John M. Ackerman wrote recently for Foreign Policy, “is not a functional democracy.” Instead, it’s a “repressive and corrupt” oligarchy propped up by a “blank check” from Washington.

Since 2008, that blank check has come to over $2.5 billion appropriated in security aid through the Mérida Initiative, a drug war security assistance program funded by Washington. Negotiated behind closed doors in the last years of the Bush administration, the plan was originally proposed as a three-year program. Yet Hillary Clinton’s State Department pushed aggressively to extend it, overseeing a drastic increase of the initiative that continues today
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/0...llarys-clintons-role-in-the-mexican-drug-war/

Maybe Illinois should start growing dope or something and get on that gravy train too...
or just legalize it all and bam!!! this stops instantly.
 
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