US EditionMexico's Daily Murder Rate Down 40% Under Sheinbaum, President Says
- On Jan 8, Reuters reported Mexico's daily murder rate fell nearly 40% since Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, with December 2025 at 52 daily homicides, down from 86 in September 2024.
- At a morning press conference, Sheinbaum said the December figure is the lowest number since 2016 alongside security officials.
- Reporting by Raul Cortes Fernandez and Brendan O'Boyle credits Reuters for the Jan 8 report, citing government officials about Mexico's homicide decline.
- Sheinbaum, a former Mexico City mayor, participated in a Reuters interview in Mexico City on September 22, 2022.
- Multiple Reuters editions reported the nearly 40% fall in Mexico's daily murder rate, government officials relayed the decline to Reuters on Thursday.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that between September 2024 and December 2025, the daily average homicide rate in Mexico fell 40 percent, from 86.9 to 52.4; that is, 34 murders less per day. Thus, in her first 15 months of government, the president and her security team have managed to bring this illicit back to the levels she had in 2016, in addition to recording an unprecedented fall for a comparable period.
Mexico says violence is plunging. But the data is complicated.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has overseen a nearly 40% drop in the country's murder rate since taking office in October 2024, government officials said on Thursday, citing preliminary statistics.
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has overseen a nearly 40% drop in the country's murder rate since taking office in October 2024, government officials said on Thursday, citing preliminary statistics.
Mexico City, 8 Jan (EFE).- The homicides in Mexico fell 40% between September 2024 and December 2025, the first 15 months of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, period in which more than 38,700 people have been arrested for high-impact crimes and more than 311 tons of drugs have been seized, reported Thursday the Security Cabinet with preliminary figures. “From September 2024. To December 2025 the intentional homicides dropped by 40%. With the end…
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