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Weekly Report - 04 August 2016 (WR-16-30)
MEXICO: Surge in violence puts government on back foot
In the space of just 72 hours over the last long weekend a total of 105 people were murdered in 17 Mexican states. While this was one of the most violent weekends of the entire year it was not an anomaly. There have been 9,413 violent murders in the first six months of the year. At this rate annual homicides would reach 18,826, reversing the ‘gains’ of the last two years and eclipsing the figure for every year since 2012, the final year of the bloody sexenio of former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), when there were 21,736 murders. Not only would this be a blow to the security strategy of the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto but it would also seriously undermine the aspirations of his interior minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, to secure the presidential candidacy of the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 2018.
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