Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Mass killings in Jalisco surpass the entire United States

The recent escalation of violence in Jalisco has led the entity to surpass the entire United States in the number of mass killings it has registered in recent years.

Since 2018 and until last March, in Jalisco, there were a total of 776 victims of massacres, such as multi-homicides, while in the same period the United States reported 736 victims, according to statistics gathered by academics from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) belonging to the Department of Sociology and the University Committee for the Analysis of the Disappearance of Persons.

In addition, the figures . . .

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