Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) has announced that about 506 individuals have been murdered during Easter Week, April 1 to 7. This equates to an average of 72 murders each day. Mexico has between 500 and 550 deliberate homicides every week, although the newspaper “El Universal” claims that this number is understated between 20 and 25 percent.
The three states with the most homicides over Easter Week were the State of Mexico (60 victims), Guanajuato (55 victims), and Michoacán (33 victims). 13 of the 67 killings that occurred on Good Friday were in the State of Mexico.
In addition to these numbers, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) claimed that they jointly confiscated a significant number of firearms and drugs on 5 April from a property in the state of Chiapas. They discovered five vehicles, 13 bags of marijuana, two bags of methamphetamine, two small arms, six grenades, 1,837 cartridges, 51 magazines, and 27 long guns inside. This operation was carried out in accordance with the federal government’s Zero Impunity policy and the National Public Security Strategy.
In mid-March, the US State Department issued travel warnings due to increased crime in several tourist-friendly Mexican states as well as several states bordering the US. Solitary female travelers were advised to take extra precautions.
This advice was on the heels of the kidnapping and murder of US visitors last week in Matamoros, Mexico–a major tourist destination just a few miles from Brownsville, Texas–Four Americans were kidnapped and two were killed in the border town. This was seen as an indication of a drug war that rages beyond the facade of the country’s sun-soaked beaches.
On the other hand, it is to be noted that Mexico is frequently visited by tourists without incident. More than 39 million visitors from other countries flew into Mexico in just one year. Most of them reported trouble-free vacations.
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