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Killers, paid for by drug traffickers, killed a total of 11,241 people in Mexico between January and June this year.
This would be a "historic record" . Since the beginning of the year, 11,000 drug-related killings have been reported in Mexico, the NGO Semáforo Delictivo announced on Tuesday (July 24th).
"Last year was very bad, but this year is worse" lamented Santiago Roel, founder of this organization conducting public security studies, at a press conference on Tuesday. To obtain this report, the NGO compared government figures with online surveys, as well as data from consultants.
According to his study, hitmen paid by drug traffickers killed 11,241 people in Mexico between January and June this year. These killings represent a large majority of the intentional killings in the country. In the first half, 15,973 murders were perpetrated, against 13,503 a year earlier, according to the Interior Ministry.
All this bloodshed, all these homicides are linked to the drug (…) to conflicts between the mafias of the drug Santiago Roel, founder of the NGO Semaforo Delictivo during a press conference
The state of Guanajuato, a particularly touristic region in the center of the country, has become the state of Mexico where the drug trafficking is the most deadly, with 1,241 homicides recorded between January and June , according to Semáforo Delictivo. Cartels such as Jalisco New Generation, Sinaloa and Los Zetas operate in this region, where many police officers have been murdered recently.
Then come, among the regions most affected by drug trafficking, the state of Baja California (northwest), Guerrero (south), Michoacán (west) and Veracruz (east). [19659009] Since the launch of a controversial military operation to fight drug trafficking in 2006, more than 200,000 people have been killed in Mexico, according to official figures.
