Security & Strategic Review - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

MEXICO | Which way the trend? On 11 July the interior ministry (Segob) reported that there were 7,110 victims of ‘homicide presumably linked to organised crime’ in the first seven months of the Enrique Peña Nieto administration (December-June) and highlighted that this was 18% fewer than in the comparable period of the Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) administration. In June, said Segob, there were 869 cases, or 24% fewer than a year earlier — and in 830 of those 869 cases, the victims were ‘presumably responsible for illicit actions’, 31 were public officials killed in the line of duty, and eight were ‘presumably uninvolved in the events’.

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