translated from Spanish: They add up to 32,565 homicides through October

The number of people killed in the course of the six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador – from December 2018 to October 2019 – amounted to 32,565 victims, between homicides and femicides. This equates, on average, to at least 97 people killed every day in Mexico.
This is the start of the six-year trial with the highest number of homicides of the last four federal governments. However, official data also show that the monthly crime figure has stabilized since the start of the second half of 2019, thus slowing the upward trend in the first part of the year.
According to the updated statistic of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), in October 2019 the country’s prosecutors’ offices reported 2,866 victims of intentional homicides and 67 victims of femicide. That is, a total of 2,933 people killed and a daily average of 94.6 cases.
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This means that October is the fourth month in a row without a hike crimes in Mexico. In June the figure reached 103 murders per day, but by July and August the average fell to 98 cases daily, in September it dropped to 97 cases and in October fell to 94 cases.
Despite this, the death rate from January to October 2019 reached 23.4 victims per hundred thousand inhabitants. This is a slight increase from the 2018 rate, which in the same period was 23.1 victims. If this trend continued in the last year, 2019 will break the record for homicidal violence recorded in the past year, albeit by a minimum margin.
With the October data, the number of people killed in Mexico in the first 11 months of the current federal government reaches 32,565 victims, of which 31,632 correspond to cases classified preliminary by prosecutors as intentional homicides, and 933 to victims of femicide.
As for research folders initiated, the rate amounts to 21.4 cases of intentional homicide per hundred thousand inhabitants, the largest for a start of six years since the government of former President Vicente Fox. Compared to the start-up of the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, which left a rate of 14.3 homicides in its first 11 months, it equates to an increase of almost 50%.
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It should be noted that the government of President López Obrador, unlike that of his predecessors, inherited an upward trend in terms of the number of homicides.
The most violent states
Colima is the federal entity with the highest homicide rate so far in 2019. According to the data it records 70 folders of investigation of this crime per hundred thousand inhabitants. To put this in proportion, this rate exceeds more than three times that recorded nationally.
The second entity with the highest homicide rate is Baja California, with 61.2 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants; Followed by Chihuahua, with 48.4; Morelos with 37.5 and Guanajuato with 36.5.
Guerrero, which in previous years occupied the first or second site in terms of intentional homicide, is now located in the sixth place with a rate of 35.7 cases.
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As for femicides, the state of Veracruz leads the national incidence with 3.4 cases per hundred thousand women; followed by Morelos with a rate of 2.8; Nuevo León with 2.1 femicides; Sinaloa with a rate of 2 cases and Sonora with 1.9 folders.
The national femicide rate from January to October 2019 stands at 1.2 cases per hundred thousand women.
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Original source in Spanish