Insecurity has placed in Mexico on a blacklist: that of the most violent cities in the world. What are they due to this criminal index? The data reveals it.
The annual index of the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice of 2024presented this Wednesday in the Mexican capital, determined that Of the 50 most violent cities in the world, 20 are in Mexicoincluding the Acapulco and Tijuana tourism.
“The maximum cities of Mexico in the ranking until now had been in 2019, with 19 cities”said José Antonio Ortega, president of the agency, at a press conference.
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Also, Ortega stressed that Of the 10 of the most violent cities in 2024, seven are in Mexico.
Port Príncipe, in Haiti, leads the index, with 139.31 homicides per 100,000 inhabitantsaccording to the “2024 ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world.”
After, Five Mexican cities continue the list, starting with Colimathat in 2022 and 2023 he had headed the world index, and in 2024 he registered 126.95 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
Next, there are the Acapulco tourist spawith a rate of 102.28 homicides; Manzanillocon 92.17; Tijuanaborder with the United States, with 91.35; and Obregón Citycon 89.2.
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In the top 10 there are also the Ecuadorian Machala, Mexican Celaya and Zamorathe Poristony The Power.
In contrast, in 2024 the Hondurans San Pedro Sula and Central District came out of the classification, which for several years appeared in the first places on the list.
“Thus, No city in Central America is among the 50 most violent in the world “said René Bolio Halloran, of the Mexican Commission on Human Rights.
Bolio said that “to obtain these notable achievements, the respective governments did not use excuses, such as poverty, high drug use in developed nations or that criminals obtain weapons from the United States.”
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“Nor did they turn to negotiate with the causes of violence, nor followed the policy of ‘hugs, not bullets’, or similar thing,” he added, referring to the phrase of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024).
Mexico closed the 2024 with a total of 30 thousand 057 malicious homicides, an interannual increase of 1.2%equivalent to 344 cases more compared to the 29,713 registered in 2023, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP).
Violence concentration
Among the cities that re -entered the list, Culiacán stands out (State of Sinaloa), where last September a war was unleashed between the main factions of the homonym cartel, after the capture of the Ismael capos “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López in the US.
Chilpancingo, Villahermosa and Tapachula also entered, and remained on the list, Cuernavaca, Ciudad Juárez, Uruapan, Irapuato, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, León, Cancun and Morelia.
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Followed by Mexico, the most cities countries in the index were Brazil (8), Colombia (6), South Africa (5), United States (5), Ecuador (3), Haiti (1), Jamaica (1) and Trinidad and Tobago (1).
Besides, 45 of the 50 cities are found in the American continent and the rest in Africa.
For his part, Horacio Rodríguez, from Missiono México, explained that The 50 cities total a total of 40 thousand 198 homicides.
He added that this amount of homicides represents 8.2% of the 490 thousand that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that they occur throughout the world, while the sum of inhabitants of these cities represent only 0.91% of the world position .
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In all of Mexico, he highlighted, the average homicide rate in 2024 “is nine times higher than the average world rate of 6.2, which gives an idea of the concentration of violence in the cities of this ranking.”
Finally, Ortega clarified violence by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine is not included; And neither is missing persons, which in 2024 in Mexico were more than 13 thousand, according to official figures.
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