Mexico: over 91 homicides per day in 2021, slightly down

(ANSA) - MEXICO CITY, JAN 20 - Mexico recorded 33,308 homicides in 2021, an average of 91.25 per day, down 3.6% compared to the previous two years, according to the official data just released.

    "Six out of 32 states account for 50% of the victims of homicides", indicated the Minister of Public Security, RosaIcela Rodríguez. These are Mexico, Guanajuato, BajaCalifornia, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Michoacan. "We are seeing a downward trend," President Manuel LopezObrador's left-wing government left-wing press conference said. In 2019, a record number of 34,690 homicides was recorded, then 34,554 in 2020, a year of reduced social activity following the Covid-19 pandemic.

    About 340,000 people have been killed in the country since 2006, when former President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug trafficking.

Mexico also has more than 95,000 missing people, according to official figures from the National Research Commission.

The disappearances began with the authorities' 'dirty war' against the leftist revolutionary movements of the 1960s-1980s.

    Despite this violence, the country of 128 million inhabitants ranks seventh among the most touristic countries in the world, with 45 million visitors in 2019, according to the World Tourism Organization.

Several very touristy areas are relatively safe, such as the southwestern state of Oaxaca.

   (HANDLE).