Homicides continue to drop across much of Mexico: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

Mexico’s information concern and a bilateral h2o quality were the cardinal absorption of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property conference.

In the archetypal fractional of the mañanera, information officials presented the latest information connected homicides, arrests, firearm seizures and cause confiscations crossed Mexico.

The president connected Tuesday discussed the circumstances surrounding Mexico’s precocious h2o deliveries to the U.S., and expressed assurance that a woody would beryllium struck. (Juan Carlos Buenrostro/Presidencia)

Later successful the presser, Sheinbaum expressed assurance that her authorities would scope a woody with its U.S. counterpart to stave disconnected Donald Trump’s menace to enforce a 5% tariff connected Mexican goods if Mexico doesn’t promptly merchandise a important quantity of the h2o it owes to the United States nether the presumption of a 1944 treaty.

(Read MND’s communicative connected Trump’s tariff menace and Sheinbaum’s effect here.)

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Dec. 9 mañanera.

Homicides down 29% successful 2025 

Marcela Figueroa Franco, caput of the National Public Security System, presented preliminary information that showed determination was an mean of 65.1 homicides per time successful Mexico during the archetypal eleven months of the year.

The fig represents a diminution of 29% compared to the regular mean of 91.7 homicides crossed 2024.

Figueroa highlighted that the diminution successful homicides compared to 2018 — erstwhile erstwhile president Enrique Peña Nieto was successful bureau for the archetypal 11 months of the twelvemonth — was 35%.

32 less murders per time successful November than successful the last period of AMLO’s presidency

At the commencement of her presentation, Figueroa reported that the mean regular homicide complaint successful November was 37% little than the mean complaint successful September 2024, the last period of Andres Manuel López Obrador’s presidency.

There was an mean of 54.7 homicides per time past month, according to preliminary data, whereas the regular mean was 86.9 successful September 2024.

The 37% simplification successful homicides successful November compared to September 2024 “is equivalent to 32 less homicides per day,” Figueroa noted.

Sheinbaum has attributed the diminution successful homicides during her presidency to the national government’s information strategy, based connected 4 cardinal tenets, including the strengthening of quality and investigative practices and the enhancement of coordination betwixt the antithetic levels of government.

National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa Franco noted that the driblet successful homicides betwixt September 2024 and November 2025 meant determination were 32 less deaths per time connected mean past month. (Juan Carlos Buenrostro / Presidencia)

More than fractional of each murders successful Mexico this twelvemonth occurred successful 7 states 

Figueroa presented information that showed determination were 21,743 homicides crossed Mexico successful the archetypal 11 months of the year.

Just implicit fractional of those murders — 11,031 oregon 51% of the full — occurred successful conscionable 7 states:

1. Guanajuato: 2,388 murders were committed successful the Bajío portion authorities betwixt January and November. The fig accounts for 11% of each homicides successful the period. Guanajuato has led Mexico successful homicides successful caller years. A fig of organized transgression groups run successful the state, including the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and its main rival, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
2. Chihuahua: 1,661 homicides, accounting for 7.6% of the full betwixt January and November. The bluish borderline state’s largest city, Ciudad Juárez, is among Mexico’s 50 astir convulsive municipalities.
3. Baja California: 1,586 homicides, accounting for 7.3% of the total. This state’s largest city, Tijuana, is besides among Mexico’s 50 astir convulsive municipalities.
4. Sinaloa: 1,541 homicides, accounting for 7.1% of the total. Rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel person been engaged successful a bloody warfare successful the authorities for implicit a year.
5. México state: 1,424 homicides, accounting for 6.5% of the total. México authorities is Mexico’s astir populous state.
6. Guerrero: 1,240 homicides, accounting for 5.7% of the total. The state’s largest city, Acapulco, is 1 of Mexico’s 50 astir convulsive municipalities.
7. Michoacán: 1,191 homicides, accounting for 5.5% of the total. The national authorities past period presented “Plan Michoacán for Peace and Justice,” a 57-billion-peso (US $3.1 billion) inaugural that the authorities devised successful effect to the execution of the politician of Uruapan connected Nov. 1 and wide insecurity successful the state.

Murders person declined successful 26 of 32 states 

Figueroa besides reported that homicides declined successful 26 of Mexico’s 32 national entities betwixt January and November compared to the aforesaid play of past year.

Zacatecas recorded the largest decrease, with murders declining 70.5%. There were 137 homicides successful Zacatecas betwixt January and November, the eighth lowest number among Mexico’s 32 national entities.

Four different states recorded year-over-year reductions supra 50%. They were:

• Chiapas: -57.9%
• Quintana Roo: -56.7%
• Nuevo León: -53.4%
• San Luis Potosí: -51.8%

Among the different states that recorded a diminution successful homicides betwixt January and November were the 2 astir convulsive ones. Murders fell 15.9% successful Guanajuato and 11.5% successful Chihuahua.

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The six national entities wherever homicides accrued successful yearly presumption successful the archetypal 11 months of the twelvemonth were Sinaloa, Campeche, Veracruz, Baja California Sur, Hidalgo and Nayarit.

4 states recorded less than 100 homicides betwixt January and November 

The information presented by Figueroa besides showed that 4 states recorded less than 100 murders successful the archetypal 11 months of the year. They were:

• Yucatán: 28 homicides
• Durango: 56
• Coahuila: 73
• Aguascalientes: 95

Seven different states recorded 200 homicides oregon less betwixt January and November. They were:

• Campeche: 108
• Tlaxcala: 109
• Baja California Sur: 127
• Zacatecas: 137
• Querétaro: 139
• Nayarit: 176
• San Luis Potosí: 200

Mexico City recorded the 14th highest fig of homicides among the 32 national entities, with 781 betwixt January and November.

High-impact crimes down astir 14% this year 

Figueroa presented information that showed that an mean of 518.2 “high-impact” crimes were reported connected a regular ground successful the archetypal 11 months of 2025, a simplification of 13.8% compared to 2024.

High-impact crimes see homicide, kidnapping, extortion and convulsive robbery, among different offenses.

Crime country investigators battalion up grounds recovered astatine a clandestine gravesite successful Ciudad Juárez successful September. Officials study that precocious interaction crimes similar execution and kidnapping are down implicit 10% truthful acold this year. (Manuel Sánchez/Cuartoscuro.com)

Figueroa highlighted that the incidence of high-impact crimes is down 47% successful 2025 compared to 2018. She noted that the incidence of astir high-impact crimes, including femicide, kidnapping, burglary and convulsive conveyance theft, declined betwixt 2019 and 2025, but acknowledged that reported acts of extortion accrued 23.1% implicit the aforesaid period.

However, since the motorboat of the nationalist strategy against extortion successful July, reported acts of extortion person declined 20%, Figueroa said. She was referring to the simplification successful extortion reports betwixt July (an mean of 32.03 per day) and November (25.6 per day).

Almost 39,000 arrests successful 14 months

Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported that 1,761 radical were arrested successful November for allegedly committing high-impact crimes.

Since the existent authorities took bureau connected Oct. 1, 2024, a full of 38,773 radical person been arrested for allegedly committing specified crimes, according to information presented by García Harfuch.

The information curate didn’t accidental however galore of those radical person faced proceedings and been convicted of the crimes they allegedly committed. It is communal for suspects successful Mexico to stay successful situation for extended periods of clip earlier facing trial.

García Harfuch besides presented information that showed that authorities person seized 311.7 tonnes of drugs implicit the past 14 months, including much than 4.3 cardinal fentanyl pills, which are manufactured by Mexican transgression groups with precursor chemicals illegally imported from China.

He said that 20,169 firearms were confiscated successful the aforesaid period, and 1,760 methamphetamine laboratories were dismantled by the service and navy.

The dismantling of the clandestine cause labs “represents an economical interaction of billions of pesos for organized crime,” García Harfuch said.