Mexico Violent Cities List Reflects a Chaotic Criminal Landscape Mimi Yagoub - InSight Crime
go to original June 14, 2014

Following an Interior Ministry press release from May 29 that established security taxes based on the "atmosphere of violence" in municipalities in the country's 32 states, Animal Politico published its own analysis with murder and crime figures for the 29 most violent municipalities.

Of these, nine were in Chihuahua, six in Tamaulipas, five in Morelos, four in Guerrero, three in Sinaloa, one in Colima and one in Oaxaca. Animal Politico reported that a total of 2,674 homicides were registered in these municipalities, accounting for 12 percent of the 21,837 murders recorded nationwide between 2013 and the first part of 2014.

The five municipalities with the highest murder count in the period measured were Acapulco (Guerrero) with 1,077, Culiacan (Sinaloa) with 620, Cuernavaca (Morelos) with 163, Iguala (Guerrero) with 139, and Nuevo Laredo (Tamaulipas) with 102. These five municipalities also had the highest number of registered crimes.

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