 | Compared to the statistics from 2016, every state in Mexico (with the exception of Sonora) saw an increase in the number of executions related to organized crime. The states with the highest number of killings were Guerrero, Guanajuato, Veracruz, Michoacán, Chihuahua and Baja California.
Organized crime-related homicides in the western state of Nayarit surged from 31 in 2016 to 337 in 2017. Guanajuato also saw a dramatic spike in organized crime-related murders, going from 670 killings in 2016 to 1,983 a year later. It’s no surprise that the states with the highest number of executions by organized crime are also those that are the most strategically important. | |