104 thousand 602 executed with Peña Nieto
The Fifth Report of the Government of the President of the Republic comes stained with blood like no other. His government will end up as one of the most violent and insecure in contemporary Mexican history. With the extradition of "El Chapo" Guzman, the atomization of the Sinaloa Cartel and the expansion of the CJNG 2017 will be the year with the highest number of executionsOne of every four homicides in Mexico registered in the last 27 years, have been committed in the administration of the President of the Republic, Enrique Peña Nieto. His bloody numbers surpass even those of his predecessor Felipe Calderón, who declared the "war" against drug trafficking, awakening thousands of hit men under the orders of criminal groups in the country.
Thousands of families torn apart by homicide, orphans, wives or mothers, faces and names erased from the great total numbers: 104 thousand 602 registered felonious homicides since the PRI took protest as President of the Republic in December of 2012 and until 31 of July of this year.
This is the most current and closest figure in the abyss of drug trafficking and violence, in enforced disappearances, in narcotics, or in the disintegration of bodies, in the world of peoples far away from everything, with no records of their dead.
The killings during the peñanietista era represent 25 percent of the total homicides registered from 1990 to 2016, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
The violence reflected in the deprivation of life exploded with Felipe Calderón. Adding the number of murders during the PAN government (2006-2012) to those of the current administration, they represent 49% of the 427 thousand 698 victims of homicide in the last 27 years, according to figures obtained by the same Inegi. One of every two murders occurred under the mandate of Calderón and Peña.
16 thousand 152 dead in the course of 2017
If the trend in executions continues as it has in the first seven months of 2017, it will break a record of spilled blood. From January 1 to July 31, the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, fed by public prosecutors and procuratories of the states of the Republic, has registered 16,122 violent deaths.
The chilling number itself gets a lot more nerve when compared to the first year that Calderon opened fire on the drug cartels. That is, more than 16 thousand homicides in the first seven months of 2017 are practically double the ones that the government documented in 2007 (8 thousand 867).
Each month, in 2017, 2 thousand 100 violent deaths (intentional homicides) and 2 thousand 461 have been recorded. Some 2,300 executions on average monthly, 78 each day, three deaths per hour. If this average is sustained, this year would end with a record number: 27,690 victims.
President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Secretary of Defense
PHOTO: MARIO JASSO /CUAROSCURO.COM
PHOTO: MARIO JASSO /CUAROSCURO.COM
So far this year, in Sinaloa, Chihuahua, a little Guanajuato and especially Baja California, violence has intensified, entities that represent strategic points for trafficking, production and distribution of drugs in the country.
At the end of 2016, the states with the highest number of violent deaths were:
- State of Mexico, 2 thousand 256.
- Guerrero, 2 thousand 213.
- Veracruz, thousand 522.
- Michoacán, thousand 477.
- Jalisco, thousand 470.
- Baja California, thousand 258.
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- Guanajuato, thousand 110.
- Mexico City, thousand 035.
- Oaxaca, thousand 013.
Just below Guerrero and Estado de México is Baja California, where practically 80% of homicides occur in Tijuana. What is most serious is that in the top 3, the State of Mexico is six times larger population than Guerrero and Baja California, condensing a greater number of murders for every 100 thousand inhabitants.
From January to July of 2010, according to the Report of Victims of Homicide, Kidnapping and Extortion published by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, some states have gained ground on the scale of death.
With the data updated until August 20, so the resettlement in the course of 2017:
Homicide rate
If we divide the number of homicides committed so far this year among the population of each State (according to the National Population Council), these would be the most violent entities. He emphasizes that the State of Mexico, which generally heads the top, loses spaces in front of other places.
Reacomodo of the Sinaloa Cartel, power of the CJNG
For Dr. David Shirk, a researcher at the University of San Diego in the United States, the wave of violence in Mexico has to do with a variety of factors such as poverty and lack of social opportunities.
David Shirk, researcher
At the same time, the exponential growth of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) are the reasons for the deaths that have increased and diversified throughout the country. "It has to do with the readjustment of the criminal world in the wake of the realm of the Sinaloa Cartel," he describes.
In an interview with ZETA , the master of International Relations also admits that "CJNG's growth effectively consolidated during the early years of Peña Nieto by achieving the largest elimination in terms of rivals such as Los Zetas, Los (Knights) Templars, in that time when there is a very important advance of Sinaloa ".
Shirk states: "The first capture made by the government of Peña to 'El Chapo' did not detract from its ability to operate, because it was able to escape, was in a situation of power despite being imprisoned, that means that the time of greater power of Sinaloa was in 2012 and 2013. Removing from the game to 'El Chapo' - continues the professor in Political Science - is when the instability begins, the increase of violence, was in the end of 2015, particularly after moving it to Chihuahua, the violence continued to grow after his extradition to the United States. "
Shirk is the director of the Justice in Mexico program at the University of San Diego and believes that violence will cease when a cartel succeeds in seizing the disputed territories or achieving alliances for a ceasefire to eliminate poverty or unemployment, education can not be carried out over two years, but in that period the dynamics between organized crime groups can be radically altered.
"The waves of violence have grown and decreased much faster than changes in politics or public administration, which means that despite the fact that politicians and police like to claim the merits of changes in violence, as in 2012 and 2014, there are other factors in the criminal groups themselves, "he says.
One of the biggest problems is impunity, since "the authority has neither the time nor the capacity to investigate and punish homicides. This is very problematic, because if I kill someone and nobody punishes me, I will do it again. "
That is why the margin for reducing violence by the state is to strengthen investigations and punish homicides.
"Government attacks symptoms, not causes": Semáforo Delictivo
For Santiago Roel, director of Semáforo Delictivo, the most ambitious citizen project in the country regarding the revision of figures on insecurity, "the government has been attacking the symptoms without attacking the causes, which is the black market for drugs."
Santiago Roel, Semáforo Delictivo
In contrast, he explains, retail drug sales "have to protect a whole square, a whole city or a whole state, a whole territory, generally young at risk recruited, the colony's thief in the beginning, it is not a very sophisticated organization, then they have to defend their territories with much violence, they have less funds, they have arms and they are collapsing to the authority. This is the first cause of violence in Mexico.
"It is a competition of mafias by the territory. When you have a single mafia that controls a drug market, the region is usually quiet. When you have competition, it causes a lot of violence. The problem is that the Mexican government itself has been creating this violence by atomising the cartels, creating more competition and war between them, "
he concludes.
In addition, criminal groups can not be defined without the complicity of the governments in turn: "There is a recomposition in government and obviously, there is a recomposition in criminal groups, their alliances, their contacts within the government. Electoral turbulence creates turbulence in organized crime as well. "
To solve this, Roel suggests: "It's very simple and it's drug regulation. Take away the business, snatch the market from the mafias, take away the economic, war and social power with which recruit young people, families, authorities, police. Regulation does not imply promoting drugs. Promoting drugs is what has been happening today, mafias are promoting dangerous drugs freely throughout the country.
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And he adds: "All the institutional attempts that you can or want to make with respect to reducing violence or corruption will not work if you do not take the money from these mafias first."
Roel knows that not a single political party has raised the agenda. And less now that the 2018 electoral process is at the door: "First the pressure of the DEA, CIA and other agencies of the United States in Mexico, who do not care that Mexico regulates because if it does, there they run out of piñata, they love to beat up their failure in their drug policy. "
The other reason is that "...There are politicians involved in the narco. No narcopolitico will agree on the regulation of drugs, they would be shooting their foot. " And finally, "the lack of understanding on the part of society that continues to confuse regulation with drug promotion and is just the opposite. That's the way it is now, get any drug anywhere. "
Makeup figures
Jimena David is a researcher at the Center for Public Policy Analysis Mexico Evalúa, based one of her most recent research on how to make up the numbers of willful homicides by reclassifying them as wrongful killings.
"Ideally, these two categories should have no relation because one refers to accidental (wrongful) acts and the other to intentional (intentional) acts, so they would have to move completely differently," he says in an interview with ZETA
However, when Jimena and two of his fellow investigators from Mexico's Security and Justice Program evaluate the behavior of the incidents of these two crimes, "we find very significant and rare relationships that should not exist. We can not know for sure if they are manipulating the figure, but the data behave in an atypical way, so there is probably a problem, "he notes.
PHOTO: BERNANDINO HERNÁNDEZ /CUARTOSCURO.COM.
Poverty as a factor but not as a source
Poverty as a factor but not as a source
Regarding the reliability of these databases, David considers: "Both state and national strategies are constructed with defective information."
According to what the researcher has collected in her research, "some public ministries are capturing data by hand on paper or have no electricity, this slows down the authorities' ability to correctly collect data and make the best use of it."
One of the ways it proposes to improve the databases on homicides in the country is for public ministries to form a more complete picture of the modalities of this crime, beyond the data that are traditionally classified as homicide type , weapon and location, as well as that of a watchdog."
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From Zeta
BC registers 1,331 crimes in 2017
"In the last seven days, 41 executions were committed in Tijuana. On Wednesday 23, in the El Dorado fractionation, in a vacant lot was found among the undergrowth a lifeless body of a male between 30 and 35 years old, with bullet injuries to the head. A man identified as Eder Acosta Vega, 34, was shot dead in Hacienda Las Fuentes neighborhood. In a place used as a garbage dump in the San Martín and Rancho El Chicote colony, a calcinated wagon type vehicle was located; inside it was a charred person.
Then, in less than 24 hours, six people were killed. In the General Hospital, a man lost his life after the injuries he sustained in an armed attack on August 15 in the colony of Niños Héroes. With traces of violence were found the bodies of a man and a woman inside the pile of the CESPT located in the Esperanza colony. When she was aboard a Jeep Cherokee truck in the Santa Fe neighborhood, a 46-year-old woman identified as María Angelica Castañeda García was executed by unknown men who fled the crime scene in a red pick-up truck . In the Azteca colony, the body of Arnulfo Jiménez, 37, was located. He had gunshot wounds.
On Tuesday 22, in front of the pools El Vergel, at the height of Alamar Fast Track, was located a calcined sedan vehicle. In the trunk was the body of a charred person. And in the colony Los Laureles, it was reported that they were the remains of a male.
From 18 to 20 August, 19 people were killed in different parts of the city. On Friday, Carlos Enrique Araujo Hernandez, 22, lost his life at the General Hospital, after the bullets tipped. In a vacant lot in the colony El Florido was found the corpse of Manuel Germán Orozco Acosta. He had injuries from a firearm. In the colony La Encantada were located the remains of a male, allegedly strangled. The body of Esthela Yessenia Perez Garcia, 22, was found in the colony El Laurel. At the scene of the crime were three ballistic signs, as well as the body of a man in the colony Valle Verde. At the General Hospital he died as a result of the puncture wounds Andrés Frutos García. In the same hospital, Leonel Jorge Villalobos, 22, died after receiving gunshot wounds.
On Saturday, in the rehabilitation center Butterfly Garden of the Juárez colony, Maria Inés Aguilar Osuna, 44, was murdered. In a neighborhood road adjacent to Tijuana-Playas de Rosarito toll booth in Costa Coronado, the corpse of a male between 20 and 25 years old was found. The victim had a piece of metal embedded in his head. Diana Razo Martínez, 34, was murdered in a house in the colony Palma Real. For injuries caused by a firearm, Rubén Ornelas Barba, 35, died in the courtyard of a house in the colony Rancho La Cima. In front of the private Brussels in the fractionation Laurel 2 was shot to shots Julio César Salazar, between 40 and 45 years. In Colinas de la Cruz, the dead body of a male was found, with bullet wounds on his face.
On Sunday 20, in Colony Mexico Lindo, the body was dismembered from a male inside a brown suitcase. The remains - head, upper and lower extremities - were in three black bags. He was between 35 and 40 years old. A subject between the ages of 35 and 40 died in the General Hospital. It was attacked by bullets in the colony Las Torres. Also in the same hospital Jorge González lost his life, 52, who, along with two other men, aged 29 and 46, were beaten to death."
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