Kidnapping Is Becoming a Rising Scourge Across Five Mexican States Elena Toledo - PanAm Post
go to original October 25, 2016

Vladamir Hernandez went to Mexico to investigate the cause and the consequence of a rise in kidnapping in Mexico City. (BBC Newsnight)

Chairman of the Stop Kidnapping Organization Isabel Miranda de Wallace reported that new data on kidnapping reveals an increase during the month of September in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco, Morelos, Zacatecas and Puebla.

Veracruz had 37 kidnappings. Tabasco had 10. Morelos had nine. Zacatecas and Puebla had eight each. Morelos, Tamaulipas, Guerrero and Tabasco had the most kidnappings per 100,000 inhabitants in Mexico.

The report’s figures contrast with those submitted by the Ministry of Interior, who said it decreased by 2.13 percent this year compared to 2015.

On Wednesday, the Government Secretariat reported that between January and September 2015, there were 1,126 kidnappings. In the same period of this year, it reported 1,102 — 24 cases less than in 2016.

Miranda de Wallace attributes this difference to the methodology with which data was collected.

...Stop Kidnapping presented figures that show an increase in kidnappings that end in death. In the state of Mexico, there were 177 murder victims; Guerrero had 57, Veracruz 57 and Jalisco 54. Tamaulipas had 40 and Puebla had 33.

However, some states also reported no kidnappings, including Baja California Sur, Colima, Guanajuato, Nayarit, Tlaxcala and Yucatan.

Read the rest at PanAm Post | Español

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