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Weekly Report - 25 August 2016 (WR-16-33)
MEXICO: Violence reverting to Calderón levels
The figures make for grim reading for the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto. There were more homicides in Mexico in July than in any month since mid-2011, at which point there were still 18 months of the violence-riven mandate of former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) left to run. It was the first month since Peña Nieto took office in December 2012 with more than 2,000 homicides. And the number of homicides increased in 22 of Mexico’s 32 federal entities. The biggest problem for the Peña Nieto administration, however, is that it cannot dismiss July as an anomaly because there has been a sustained increase in the number of homicides for several months now.
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