Security chief touts 85% drop in Quintana Roo homicides: Friday’s mañanera recapped

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🌴 Quintana Roo information report: President Sheinbaum held Friday’s mañanera successful Tulum alongside Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama and information officials who presented the state’s information report. National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa said Quintana Roo’s homicide complaint fell 85% betwixt September 2024 and June 2026, portion 3,794 arrests were made for high-impact crimes successful the authorities betwixt October 2024 and June 2026.
🕊️ Tulum goes 2 months without homicides: Figueroa reported nary homicides successful Tulum successful May oregon June, and nary truthful acold successful July, a turnaround for a municipality that ranked among Mexico’s astir convulsive arsenic precocious arsenic past year.
🏖️ “Tulum Reborn” tourism actions announced: Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez unveiled 10 measures nether the strategy, including escaped introduction to Jaguar National Park for Mexicans, halved archaeological tract admittance and a caller tourer enactment exemplary with the National Guard.
🌊 Combating sargassum: Sheinbaum and Lezama highlighted efforts to incorporate the ample quantities of sargassum washing up regular successful Quintana Roo. Lezama said that implicit 700 cardinal pesos person been spent connected the problem.
🌎 Strong earthquake disconnected Chiapas coast: Officials confirmed a almighty earthquake struck disconnected Chiapas Friday morning. No harm was reported, but the Navy Ministry advised avoiding Pacific seashore beaches for six hours owed to tsunami risk.

**Why today’s mañanera matters**

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property league successful Tulum, a formation municipality connected the Caribbean seashore of the authorities of Quintana Roo.

She was accompanied by a ample radical of officials, including Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch, Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez and Environment Minister Alica Bárcena.

“Today we’re going to talk astir 2 precise important issues for Quintana Roo and the country,” Sheinbaum said astatine the commencement of the mañanera.

“The archetypal is the information study for Quintana Roo and the 2nd is simply a bid of actions we’re going to instrumentality to warrant tourism successful Tulum and entree to beaches and the archaeological zone,” she said.

Some of Mexico’s best-known tourism destinations are located successful Quintana Roo, specified arsenic Cancún (the state’s largest city), Playa del Carmen and Cozumel, an land successful the Caribbean Sea that is simply a apical halt for cruise ships.

Thus, immoderate large information problems successful the authorities tin person a antagonistic interaction connected Mexico’s nationalist tourism numbers.

Currently, however, the information concern successful Quintana Roo, per authoritative statistics, is overmuch improved compared to caller years, arsenic is the lawsuit successful the bulk of Mexican states, with 29 of the 32 national entities signaling yearly declines successful their homicide rates successful the archetypal six months of 2026.

The authorities attributes the diminution successful homicides — 31.1% nationally successful the archetypal fractional of the twelvemonth — to its information strategy, which is based connected 4 cardinal tenets, including the strengthening of quality and investigative practices and a bolstering of the National Guard, the national information unit that was established successful 2019.

Beyond the authorities information report, today’s mañanera was besides important arsenic officials spoke astir efforts to combat Quintana Roo’s sargassum problem.

Homicides person declined importantly successful Quintana Roo

National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa presented a graph that showed that homicides person trended down successful Quintana Roo since the existent national authorities took bureau successful October 2024.

She highlighted that determination was an mean of 2 homicides per time successful Quintana Roo successful September 2024, the last period of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency, portion successful June 2026 determination was an mean of conscionable 0.3 murders per time successful the state.

The diminution successful June compared to September 2024 is 85%.

National Public Security System main Marcela Figueroa

Figueroa besides presented a graph that showed that the homicide complaint successful Quintana Roo past period was the lowest of immoderate June betwixt 2015 and 2026. The homicide complaint past period was 57% little than successful June 2025.

In the archetypal six months of 2026, determination was an mean of 0.4 homicides per time successful Quintana Roo. Figueroa highlighted that the simplification successful the regular homicide complaint betwixt the archetypal fractional of this twelvemonth and the archetypal fractional of 2025 was 60%.

No homicides successful Tulum successful May and June

Figueroa presented information that showed determination were nary homicides successful Tulum successful May and June.

“Tulum, we person to say, has gone 2 months without homicides,” she said, adding that determination haven’t been immoderate murders successful the municipality truthful acold this month.

Tulum has antecedently ranked among Mexico’s astir convulsive municipalities. For example, arsenic Mexico News Daily reported past October, Tulum was Mexico’s 20th astir convulsive municipality successful the 12 months to the extremity of August 2025 based connected its per capita homicide rate.

Foreigners person been killed successful Tulum, including in an equipped onslaught that occurred astatine a formation nine successful February 2024 and successful a shooting successful October 2021.

Almost 3,800 arrests successful QR since Sheinbaum took office

García Harfuch reported that betwixt Oct. 1, 2024 and June 30, 2026, a full of 3,794 radical were arrested successful Quintana Roo for allegedly committing high-impact crimes specified arsenic murder, kidnapping, convulsive robbery and extortion.

He besides reported that authorities seized 762 firearms and 6.68 tonnes of drugs successful the authorities successful the aforesaid period. In addition, authorities dismantled 1 clandestine methamphetamine laboratory successful Quintana Roo, García Harfuch said.

Rodríguez announces 10 actions for ‘Tulum Reborn’ strategy

Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez announced 10 actions related to the “Tulum Reborn” (Tulum Renace) tourism strategy that was launched past November. Among the actions she announced were that:

Entry to the Jaguar National Park, which opened successful September 2024, volition beryllium escaped for Mexicans.
The outgo of introduction to the Tulum archeological tract volition beryllium halved. Entry volition outgo 80 pesos for Mexican visitors and 265 pesos for foreigners.
A “model of attraction and support” for tourists volition beryllium implemented successful collaboration with the National Guard.
A caller nationalist transport strategy volition beryllium developed.
A “comprehensive program” volition beryllium developed to pull caller flights to the Tulum Airport, which opened successful precocious 2023.

Rodríuguez besides reported that 10 caller nationalist accesses to beaches successful Tulum had been opened.

“Today the beaches beryllium to the people,” she said.

Sheinbaum and Lezama item efforts to combat sargassum

Sheinbaum noted that the accumulation of sargassum on the coastline is simply a occupation successful Quintana Roo.

Environment Minister Bárcena said Thursday that a seemingly incredulous magnitude of 9,000 tonnes of the seaweed washes up connected Quintana Roo beaches connected a regular basis.

Sheinbaum said that hoteliers successful Quintana Roo and Governor Lezama person done a batch of enactment to trim the magnitude of seaweed that reaches beaches.

Dozens of sargassum postulation workers cleanable a ample Playa del Carmen formation covered successful sargassum seaweed

“There are a batch of beaches that are cleanable acknowledgment to [sargassum] barriers [in the sea] and different actions that person been taken arsenic good arsenic the enactment of the Navy Ministry to seizure sargassum,” she said.

“Now we privation to code sargassum with much resources truthful this isn’t an contented for formation tourism successful Quintana Roo,” Sheinbaum said.

Lezama, who took bureau successful September 2022, said that much than 700 cardinal pesos (US $39.9 million) person been spent connected addressing the sargassum occupation successful Quintana Roo. Some of that money, she said, has been utilized to acquisition ample and tiny vessels that cod sargassum astatine oversea earlier it washes up connected beaches.

Lezama said that authorities authorities collaborate intimately with the Mexican Navy and the national Environment Ministry connected efforts to combat the sargassum problem.

“We’ve worked connected the containment [of sargassum],” she said earlier describing the seasonal accomplishment of the seaweed arsenic a “natural phenomenon.”

Government acknowledges beardown earthquake disconnected the seashore of Chiapas

At the extremity of the property conference, reporters noted that a beardown earthquake had occurred disconnected the seashore of Chiapas.

Navy Minister Raymundo Pedro Morales said determination was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, citing the spot initially reported by the National Seismological Service (SSN). The SSN aboriginal reported that the quake, which occurred astatine 8:48 a.m. Mexico City time, measured 7.4 connected the Richter scale.

Morales said that nary superior consequences had been reported. He advised radical to determination distant from Pacific seashore beaches owed to the hazard of a tsunami.

Just earlier 10 a.m., Sheinbaum said connected societal media that she had spoken to the governors of Chiapas and Tabasco, and noted that nary harm had been reported.

“The Navy Ministry recommends not approaching beaches successful the adjacent six hours owed to the tsunami risk,” she wrote.

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

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