translated from Spanish: Mexico had Sunday its most violent day of the year

Mexico recorded its most violent day on Sunday so far this year when it counted 105 victims of murder, amid the government’s suggested quarantine to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, according to preliminary official data released on Monday.
The figure exceeds 104 cases reported on 4 April last year.
“We are addressing the issue of coronavirus, but unfortunately we continue to have problems with homicides,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday at his regular morning conference.
The data show that the State of Mexico (centre) recorded the highest number of intentional homicides, with 12; Chihuahua (northwest) with 10, while Mexico City, Guanajuato (center) and Oaxaca (south) reported 9 each.
Since the health contingency began in Mexico in mid-March, violence has continued in the country, which in 2019 recorded 34,608 murders, a record number since 1997.
The sum of 2019 equates to an average of nearly 95 intentional homicides per day in Mexico, a country affected by a wave of escalating violence since late 2006, when the fight against drug trafficking was militarized.
Since then, nearly 275,000 people have been killed in the country, according to official figures that do not detail how many of these cases would be linked to organized crime.
López Obrador, who took office in December 2018, argues that violence will be less if poverty, exclusion and lack of opportunity are fought, and the use of force against criminals is diminished.
“After we move on from this difficult situation (the pandemic), we’re going to give (criminals) options, alternatives so that they can rejoin public life, be good people,” the representative said.
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Original source in Spanish