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Security & Strategic Review - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Homicide trend reversal in Peña Nieto’s third year
On 2 September, in his third state-of-the nation report, President Enrique Peña Nieto proudly announced, ‘Today it is a fact that violence is falling in Mexico [...] In a number of regions tranquillity is gradually returning to the streets and localities.’ He drew attention to the fact that last year ― his second full year in office ― the number of intentional homicides across the country had fallen by 24.3% from the level of 2012 (which included the last 11 months of the previous administration), and that in the northern border states they had done so by almost twice that much. Later data show an upturn this year.
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