Daily murders fall to lowest level since 2016: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Marcela Figueroa Franco, caput of the National Public Security System, presented the latest homicide information astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference.

Later successful the property conference, Security Minister Omar García provided an update connected arrests and the seizure of firearms and narcotics.

During her Q&A league with reporters, Sheinbaum responded to a question astir wherefore Mexico’s execution complaint is trending down.

Homicides down 15.9% successful archetypal 7 months of 2025 

Figueroa reported that determination was an mean of 69.7 homicides per time successful Mexico betwixt January and July.

The preliminary information fig represents a alteration of 15.9% compared to the mean of 82.9 murders per time successful the archetypal 7 months of 2024.

Figueroa highlighted that the mean is the lowest for the archetypal 7 months of immoderate twelvemonth since 2016. The diminution compared to the January-July play of 2020 is 27.8%.

In July, determination was an mean of 64.9 homicides per day, a simplification of 25.3% compared to September 2024. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

Murders down 25.3% successful July compared to past period of AMLO’s presidency

Figueroa besides reported that determination was an mean of 64.9 homicides per time successful July, a simplification of 25.3% compared to September, the last period of the six-year word of erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

She noted that determination were 22 less homicides per time successful July than successful September 2024.

Guanajuato leads the state for homicides 

Data presented by Figueroa showed determination were 14,769 homicides crossed Mexico successful the archetypal 7 months of 2025.

More than fractional of those murders — 51.5% — occurred successful conscionable 7 states.

1. Guanajuato recorded 1,761 homicides betwixt January and July, accounting for 11.9% of the nationalist total.
2. Chihuahua: 1,069 homicides (7.2% of the total)
3. Sinaloa: 1,063 homicides (7.2%)
4. Baja California: 1,052 homicides (7.1%)
5. México state: 974 homicides (6.6%)
6. Guerrero: 870 homicides (5.9%)
7. Michoacán: 820 homicides (5.6%)

Mexico City ranked arsenic the 12th astir convulsive entity successful presumption of full homicides, with 508 betwixt January and July. That fig was supra the nationalist mean of 461.53 homicides per authorities successful the archetypal 7 months of the year.

Eight states recorded 100 homicides oregon fewer. They were:

• Yucatán: 15 homicides
• Durango: 36 homicides
• Coahuila: 42 homicides
• Aguascalientes: 67 homicides
• Tlaxcala: 75 homicides
• Campeche: 75 homicides
• Baja California Sur: 79 homicides
• Querétaro: 100 homicides

Figueroa highlighted that the regular execution complaint successful Guanajuato was 60.7% little successful July than successful February.

She noted that murders successful Guanajuato began to diminution aft the apprehension of a fig of “generators of violence” — i.e., organized transgression figures — successful March.

More than 29,000 radical detained since Oct. 1 

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said that “significant progress” successful the combat against transgression has been made since the existent authorities took bureau connected Oct. 1.

Focusing connected high-impact arrests, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch has delivered important results. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

He said that much than 29,000 radical person been arrested for high-impact crimes, “directly weakening transgression organizations.”

García Harfuch besides said that authorities person seized 14,943 firearms and implicit 216 tonnes of drugs since Sheinbaum took office.

In addition, 1,262 methamphetamine laboratories person dismantled crossed 21 states, helium said.

Sheinbaum: Homicides person declined owed to nationalist information strategy 

Sheinbaum asserted that homicides person declined during her authorities owed to the implementation of a caller nationalist information strategy.

“There is simply a strategy, determination is monitoring of the strategy, timely monitoring municipality by municipality successful immoderate cases and authorities by authorities successful different cases if the transgression rates are lower,” she said.

“For example, we person 20 precedence municipalities wherever the National Guard has a greater presence. Work is carried retired successful coordination with the mayor, oregon with the authorities governor,” Sheinbaum said.

She highlighted that the nationalist information strategy has 4 cardinal pillars, namely attraction to the basal causes of crime; strengthening of the National Guard; strengthening of quality and probe practices; and enhanced coordination betwixt governments of antithetic levels.

“That is what has yielded this result,” she said, referring to the simplification successful homicides.

“In 10 months, determination is simply a simplification of homicide victims of 25.3%,” Sheinbaum said, referring to the diminution betwixt September 2024 and July 2025 alternatively than the yearly simplification successful the archetypal 7 months of the year.

“Of course, we request to proceed working, but it’s a precise important result, portion of the imperishable coordination we person [with authorities and municipal authorities]. So, the strategy works, but we person to support moving each day,” she said.

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