Undersecretary Campa: Fighting Crime Costs Mexico $16.6 Billion USD Annually Anadolu Agency
go to original May 12, 2014

The month of March witnessed a 10-percent increase in homicides in Mexico City where its 21 million inhabitants saw over 14-hundred murder cases. (PressTV)

The murder rate in Mexico is still 50 each day even while fighting crime cost over US$16 billion in 2013, the Mexican government reports.

The amount represents 1.3 percent of gross domestic product, according to the National Survey on Victimization and Perception of Public Security 2013.

"The violence and crime situation in Mexico remains fragile," said Roberto Campa Cifrián, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Citizen Participation in the Ministry of the Interior. Campa Cifrián was speaking during the inauguration of the Week of Social Crime Prevention, organized by the Mexican government and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Although homicide rates in Mexico fell from 19 to 16 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013, "we cannot say that things are fine," Campa said.

The federal government is putting special emphasis on states such as Michoacán and Tamaulipas; where organized crime has control of local governments and territories.

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