Nouveau record du taux d'homicides au Mexique, alors que la guerre contre la drogue s'éternise

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Nouveau record du taux d'homicides au Mexique, alors que la guerre contre la drogue s'éternise

4 février 2019

Le président récemment élu Andrés Manuel López Obrador a promis de mettre un terme à la guerre contre la drogue, mais les critiques dénoncent la décision d’impliquer un nouvel organe militaire dans la sécurité publique. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

By David Agren

Mexico’s murder rate broke a new record in 2018 as the country’s drug war dragged on and criminal groups fought for control of an increasingly diversified range of illegal activities.

Figures released this week by the country’s public safety secretariat show that 28,816 homicide case files were opened in 2018, a 15% increase over the previous year.

In recent years, violence has exploded in previously peaceful areas of the country such as Quintana Roo state, which registered 763 homicides in 2018 – double the 2017 figure.

Conflict in Quintana Roo – home of the Caribbean resort cities of the “Mexican Riviera” – has been attributed to a struggle for smuggling routes and local drug markets, but in other regions, violence has been driven by other illegal markets.