The civil organization Data Cívica reported this Monday that 2024 is already the year with the most cases of political-criminal violence in Mexico, with 617 records until November, which have already exceeded the 570 documented in all of 2023, according to the most recent update of the report ‘Vote among bullets’.
“2024 is positioned as the most violent year against people in politics, followed by 2023,” the NGO warned in a statement.
In addition, the organization highlighted that Sinaloa leads the records for November, with 11 of the total of 45 records of violence nationwide by organized crime against people in the political or government sphere, according to its count.
“On average, Sinaloa was registering less than one case per month for this type of violence, but with the increase in violence in September we went to a count of seven cases; an increase that we also see in November with 11 cases,” indicated the NGO.
Likewise, he highlighted that the violence in Sinaloa has been exacerbated after the capture of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of ‘El Chapo’, by United States authorities at the end of last July, violence that It has been a constant ever since.
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In November alone, at least 7 security officials were killed outside of combat in Sinaloa, according to the ‘Votar entre Balas’ database.
Among the victims, the former Security Secretaries of Mazatlán, Simón Malpica Hernández and Juan Ramón Alfaro Gaxiola, stand out, murdered 15 days apart.
“We also registered the threat against the governor of Sinaloa, Joaquín Rocha Moya, where he was required to cancel the Livestock Expo 2024, which ultimately did not take place,” the NGO noted.
Additionally, in September Faustino Hernández Álvarez, leader of a livestock organization and former city official, was murdered in Culiacán, the report added.
Finally, the NGO detailed that in the period from 2018 to 2024 they have registered a total of 2,221 attacks, murders, attacks and threats against people associated with the political, governmental sphere or against government facilities or parties, of which 78% correspond to people of the male gender.
With information from EFE
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