Mexico has its bloodiest month in 20 YEARS: May sees a record number of murders as violence intensifies between gangs vying to fill space left by El Chapo

Thursday, June 22, 2017
By Paul Martin

Mexico’s May has seen the highest increase in homicides in over 20 years
The first five months of 2017 have seen an increase of about 30 per cent in homicides over the same period last year
The violence is in part due to the weakening of El Chapo’s cartel, Sinaloa since his extradition to the US last year, meanwhile the Jalisco cartel is on the rise

By JESSICA FINN
DAILYMAIL.COM
22 June 2017

May was Mexico’s bloodiest month in at least 20 years and homicides are up sharply in 2017 compared with last year, new government crime statistics show.

Statistics published Tuesday by the Interior Department said 2,186 people were murdered last month.

The previous monthly high was 2,131 in May 2011, according to a review of publicly available records that date back to 1997.

During the first five months of 2017, there were 9,916 killings nationwide – an increase of about 30 percent over the 7,638 slain during the same period last year.

‘Pretty grim. Not shocking, because we’ve seen this for months,’ Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope said. ‘But, yeah, it’s really grim.’

Mexico launched a militarized offensive over a decade ago to combat drug cartels that plague parts of the country. Homicides fell somewhat after peaking in 2011 but have risen again.

At the state level, Baja California Sur saw the biggest jump in the first five months of 2017. After registering 36 killings during the same period in 2016, that spiked by 369 percent to 169 this year.

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