Authorities report steep drop in crime in Guanajuato: Friday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Irapuato, a metropolis successful Guanajuato known arsenic “the strawberry superior of the world.”

Unfortunately, the metropolis is besides known for violence, ranking arsenic Mexico’s 50th astir convulsive municipality successful 2025 based connected its per capita homicide rate.

Friday’s league was held successful Irapuato, a mid-sized metropolis successful Guanajuato known arsenic a hub of strawberry and textile production. (Visit Mexico)

Guanajuato, meanwhile, was erstwhile again Mexico’s astir convulsive authorities successful 2025 based connected full homicides.

However, astatine Sheinbaum’s Friday mañanera, information officials provided immoderate anticipation for residents of the Bajío portion state, presenting information that shows that homicides are down and that thousands of alleged criminals person been detained implicit the past 16 months.

Later successful the property conference, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch spoke concisely astir the evident abduction lawsuit involving the parent of a well-known tv presenter, portion Sheinbaum explained wherefore she opposes the projected abbreviation of a caller governmental party.

Homicides diminution 62% successful January

National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa presented preliminary information that showed determination was an mean of 4.45 homicides per time successful Guanajuato successful January, a simplification of 62% compared to the aforesaid period of 2025.

She highlighted that the regular execution complaint successful Guanajuato successful January was the lowest for immoderate period since Sheinbaum took bureau successful October 2024.

Figueroa besides reported that the state’s mean regular homicide complaint was 7 successful 2025, down 19% from 8.6 successful 2024.

Sheinbaum acknowledged that Guanajuato inactive ranks. No. 1 for murders among Mexico’s 32 national entities, but described the simplification successful homicides arsenic “very significant.”

Most of the homicides successful Guanajuato are related to organized crime. Various transgression groups run successful the state, including the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Santa Lima de Rosa, which person been warring each different for years.

More than 4,000 arrests successful Guanajuato since Sheinbaum took office 

García Harfuch told reporters that improving the information concern successful Guanajuato has been a precedence for the national authorities since Sheinbaum took office.

The information curate reported that 4,400 radical were arrested successful the authorities betwixt Oct. 1, 2024, and Feb. 15, 2026.

Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported connected enforcement actions taken successful Guanajuato since President Sheinbau’s election. (Saúl López / Presidencia)

García Harfuch said that much than 5 tonnes of drugs and implicit 6,400 firearms were seized successful Guanajuato successful the aforesaid period.

He noted that homicides successful Guanajuato began to diminution importantly aft the apprehension successful March 2025 of 9 radical accused of homicide and assorted different crimes successful the state.

‘No indication’ that Savannah Guthrie’s missing parent is successful Mexico

Later successful the property conference, a newsman noted that a U.S. media outlet — TMZ — reported that the FBI had contacted Mexican authorities successful narration to the hunt for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of Savannah Guthrie, a co-anchor of NBC News’ greeting amusement “Today.”

TMZ reported that “our sources accidental the FBI believes it’s imaginable Nancy was taken crossed the border, but it’s improbable it happened straight aft the kidnapping.”

According to The New York Times, authorities person said they judge Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her location adjacent Tucson, Arizona, connected Feb. 1.

García Harfuch said that Mexican authorities contacted the FBI and recovered retired that “there is nary enactment [of inquiry] that points to Sonora” oregon anyplace other successful Mexico arsenic being locations of involvement successful the probe into Guthrie’s whereabouts.

He stressed that determination is “no indication” that Guthrie had been brought to Mexico.

Nancy Guthrie, parent of U.S. quality anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her location successful Tucson, Arizona, successful aboriginal February. (Savannah Guthrie/Instagram)

Sheinbaum: ‘You can’t usage a person’s name’ for a governmental party 

A newsman noted that the National Electoral Institute (INE) didn’t regularisation against a national deputy’s program to usage the initials CSP for a caller governmental enactment helium plans to create.

The ineligible section of the president’s bureau asked the INE to disallow the usage of CSP arsenic the abbreviation for a governmental enactment called Construyendo Sociedades de Paz (Building Peaceful Societies) arsenic those letters are the initials of the president, whose afloat sanction is Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

“How tin an enactment carnivore the initials of the president?” Sheinbaum asked.

“That’s wherefore the [legal] section presented this request,” she said earlier noting that the situation against the usage of the CSP initials would present beryllium taken to the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

“My initials aren’t truthful good known, but ideate if a governmental enactment called itself AMLO,” Sheinbaum said, referring to ex-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“… You can’t usage a person’t name,” she added.

The lawman attempting to usage the initials CSP for his governmental enactment is Hugo Eric Flores, laminitis of the now-defunct Social Encounter Party.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])