Daily homicides at lowest in 9 years: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Security was a cardinal absorption of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference.

Security officials presented the latest information connected homicides, arrests, firearm seizures and cause confiscations crossed Mexico.

Homicides declined astir 25% successful archetypal 9 months of 2025

Marcela Figueroa Franco, caput of the National Public Security System, presented preliminary information that showed determination was an mean of 67.4 homicides per time successful Mexico during the archetypal 9 months of the year.

The fig represents a diminution of 24.9% compared to the regular mean successful the archetypal 9 months of 2024.

Figueroa said that the regular homicide mean betwixt January and September was the lowest since 2016.

Sheinbaum has said connected galore occasions, including connected Tuesday, that the diminution successful homicides is impervious that her government’s information strategy is working. The strategy has 4 halfway tenets, including the strengthening of quality and probe practices and attraction to the basal causes of crime.

Guanajuato leads Mexico successful homicides successful 2025

Figueroa presented information that showed that determination were 18,407 homicides successful Mexico successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025.

Around 1 successful 9 of the murders was perpetrated successful the authorities of Guanajuato, which has led Mexico successful homicides for respective years.

The Bajío portion authorities recorded 2,084 homicides betwixt January and September, accounting for 11.3% of the nationalist total.

Several Guanajuato municipalities, including Tarimoro, Salvatierra, Salamanca, Celaya and San Miguel de Allende, are among the 50 “most unsafe municipalities” successful Mexico based connected their per-capita homicide rates betwixt September 2024 and August 2025, according to the transgression information website El Cri.men.

San Miguel de Allende ranked arsenic the 50th astir unsafe municipality successful the period.

Among the transgression groups that run successful Guanajuato are the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which are engaged successful a long-running turf war.

More than fractional of murders this twelvemonth occurred successful conscionable 7 states 

Figueroa noted that 51% of homicides betwixt January and September were committed successful conscionable 7 states. In summation to Guanajuato, those states are:

• Chihuahua: 1,371 homicides, representing 7.4% of the nationalist total.
• Baja California: 1,344 homicides (7.3% of the nationalist total).
• Sinaloa: 1,302 homicides (7.1%).
• México state: 1,208 homicides (6.6%).
• Guerrero: 1,069 homicides (5.8%).
• Michoacán: 1,024 homicides (5.6%).

Mexico City recorded the 13th highest fig of homicides among Mexico’s 32 national entities betwixt January and September. The superior recorded 644 murders, accounting for 3.5% of the nationalist total.

Yucatán recorded the lowest fig of homicides successful the archetypal 9 months of the year, with 23.

Homicides successful September were little than a twelvemonth earlier successful 23 states

Figueroa reported that Zacatecas recorded 88% less homicides successful September than successful the aforesaid period a twelvemonth earlier. The authorities recorded conscionable 4 homicides past month, the lowest of immoderate authorities successful the country.

Zacatecas is 1 of 23 entities that recorded less homicides successful September than successful the aforesaid period of past year.

Five different states recorded yearly declines successful murders of supra 50% successful September.

• Chiapas: 73% decline.
• Quintana Roo: 68% decline.
• Jalisco: 62% decline.
• Nuevo León: 61% decline.
• San Luis Potosí: 53% decline.

The 9 states that recorded a higher fig of homicides successful September than a twelvemonth earlier were Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Durango, Michoacán, Nayarit, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Yucatán.

Over 34,000 arrests for high-impact crimes during Sheinbaum’s archetypal twelvemonth arsenic president

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported that 34,690 radical were arrested for allegedly committing “high-impact” crimes specified arsenic murder, kidnapping and extortion successful the 12 months to Sept. 30, a play that coincides with the archetypal twelvemonth of Sheinbaum’s presidency.

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported connected Tuesday that astir 35,000 radical person been arrested for committing “high-impact” crimes since helium took complaint of the ministry. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

He said that “important operators of transgression organizations and precedence targets who generated precocious levels of unit successful antithetic entities of the country” were among those arrested successful the past year.

Those detained are linked to crimes including extortion, homicide, kidnapping, cause trafficking and weapons offenses, García Harfuch said.

Firearm and cause seizures 

García Harfuch said that authorities seized 17,200 firearms successful the twelvemonth to Sept. 30.

He said that the seizure of weapons reduces the firepower of transgression organizations and results successful “less unit connected the streets.”

García Harfuch reported that 283 tonnes of drugs, including much than 3 cardinal fentanyl pills, were confiscated during Sheinbaum’s archetypal twelvemonth successful office.

He besides said that the service and navy destroyed 1,564 cause laboratories crossed 22 states successful the aforesaid period.

“In these actions, much than 2 cardinal liters and implicit 400 tons of chemic substances person been seized. This is an unprecedented fig that represents an economical interaction to transgression organizations of hundreds of millions of pesos. Furthermore, it prevents the accumulation of these harmful substances,” García Harfuch said.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])