Mexico has recorded its highest ever murder rate with government data revealing a shocking 17,065 homicides were committed in the first six months of 2019. That equates to 94 murders every day.
The information, released Tuesday by the Secretariat of Security and Citizens Protection, showed the murder rate has increased from the same period last year, up from 16,585 murders in the first half of 2018.
A staggering 33,369 people were assassinated in all of 2018, the highest number since the country started keeping official numbers in 1997. However, 2019 is on course to eclipse that figure . . .
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