THE MOST DANGEROUS CITIES IN MEXICO
Tue, 1 Mar 2022, 00:46
00:46 AM | BY: MARTIN
BY PETRA GODESA/FEB. 28, 2022 10:58 PM EST
When it comes to violence, some Mexican cities are more notorious than others, with homicide rates steeply rising in the past years.
When president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took over the presidency in 2018, he promised to reduce the levels of violence in the country, which was going through the most violent year in history. Following years of heavily armed conflicts between criminal gangs and military forces, the country was counting the bodies of innocent bystanders. AMLO affirmed the dark days are over, only to experience the worst first year of any Mexican president ever when it came to murder rates — 34.582 murders in a year (via Insight Crime). The homicide numbers reached new heights after 2020, plummeting the country deeper in despair, and AMLO's plan to tackle impunity and corruption in institutional forces as well as demilitarize Mexican cities — through the newly established National Guard and "hugs not bullets cartel policy" — did not go according to plan.
Mexico faces a rise in numbers of femicide in recent years as well, reports Natalie Gallón for CNN. In 2019, the number of femicides rose by more than 10%, with the pandemic crisis further exacerbating the situation. While Mexican women demand stricter implementation of the existing laws around gender-based violence, AMLO is continuously denying the problem, claiming that 90 percent of the emergency calls reporting on violence targeting women are false. Here is the list of the most dangerous cities in Mexico explained.
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA
As of 2020, Baja California state was leading the statistics as the least peaceful Mexican state for the third year in a row. According to the 2021 Mexico Peace Index report, conducted by the Institute for Economics & Peace, more than half of killings in Mexico took place in only six states — one of them was Baja California. The state also ranked as one of those in which peacefulness deteriorated the most in the recent years, and it has seen a massive escalation in homicide, firearms crime, organized crime, and violent car robberies. But delving deeper into Baja California, Tijuana is also infamous as one of the most dangerous cities in the world, with a homicide rate 20 times higher than the global average.
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