Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

First quarter of 2019 is the most violent in Mexico’s history

The first quarter of 2019 is already the most violent in the modern history of Mexico. This is confirmed by the figures of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) which shows that in the first three months of the year there were 8,493 victims of homicide.

The body of the Ministry of Public Safety and Citizen Protection (SSPyPC) released the figures that confirm that this quarter has been the most violent, from January to March there were 743 more malicious homicides than in the first quarter of 2018 (7,750), the last year of Enrique . . .

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