Sheinbaum touts improved security perception amid 54% drop in Morelos homicides: Friday’s mañanera recapped

Sheinbaum’s mañanera successful 60 seconds

• 🎤 Cuernavaca furniture meeting: Sheinbaum held her Friday presser successful Morelos, spotlighting a 54% murder-rate driblet nether Gov. Margarita González, credited to the national Plan Morelos.
• 📊 Security cognition improves: INEGI’s Q2 survey showed 59.8% of respondents consciousness unsafe successful their city, down from 61.5% successful March and 63.8% successful December.
• 🚨Temoac politician murder: Federal agents are aiding Morelos prosecutors probing the sidesplitting of Mayor Valentín Lavín Moreno, who had alleged ties to section transgression groups; his in-laws were arrested Thursday.
• 📰 Oaxaca writer killing: Federal prosecutors took implicit the lawsuit of slain writer Alejandro Leyva astatine Oaxaca’s request; Sheinbaum tasked the AG with gathering Leyva’s family.
• ⚖️ Ruffo apprehension not political: Sheinbaum denied persecution claims implicit ex-Baja California politician Ernesto Ruffo’s arrest, tying it to a 12-month substance theft probe involving his company, Ingemar.

Why today’s mañanera matters

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday greeting property conference successful Cuernavaca, the superior of the authorities of Morelos, continuing a signifier begun successful January of holding determination Security Cabinet meetings connected the roadworthy to item section challenges.

Located conscionable southbound of Mexico City, Morelos is the third-smallest entity successful the republic, with a colonisation of conscionable nether 2 cardinal residents.

President Sheinbaum gave her Friday greeting property league from Cuernavaca, authorities superior of Morelos. (Gobierno de Cuernavaca)

Morelos is grappling with corruption and organized transgression challenges, though execution rates person dropped by 54% since Governor Margarita González was sworn successful connected Oct. 1, 2024 (the aforesaid time Sheinbaum took office). 

Officials credited Plan Morelos — a associated federal-state information strategy implemented successful April — and state-level efforts for reducing high-impact crimes crossed the state.

President touts improving nationalist cognition of security

Sheinbaum highlighted betterment successful the nationalist cognition of information arsenic reflected successful the quarterly survey conducted by the nationalist statistic bureau INEGI, saying the results bespeak that the nationalist is noticing the advancements her authorities is making.

So acold this year, Mexicans’ cognition of insecurity dropped successful some the archetypal and the 2nd quarter.

INEGI reported that 63.8% of those surveyed felt unsafe successful their metropolis successful December, portion 61.5% said they felt unsafe successful March. That fig fell to 59.8% successful the latest survey.

The president acknowledged that cognition sometimes changes gradually, often depending connected whether 1 oregon one’s household person been victims of a crime.

“But it besides depends connected what you perceive oregon read,” she said. “The important happening is that we are delivering results … and the colonisation sees that.”

Federal authorities instrumentality implicit 2 high-profile execution cases

In stark juxtaposition to the nationalist cognition survey, Sheinbaum and Security Minister Omar García Harfuch offered updates connected the investigations into Wednesday’s shocking murders.

With respect to the execution of Valentín Lavín Moreno, the politician of Temoac (just 80 kilometers eastbound of Cuernavaca), Harfuch said national agents are moving intimately with Morelos prosecutors “to clarify the events and apprehend those responsible.”

Harfuch added that Lavín, who was changeable to decease successful his City Hall office, was nether probe for imaginable links to 2 section transgression groups. Lavín’s in-laws were arrested connected Thursday, accused of having ties to organized crime.

A fewer hours earlier the tragic events successful Temoac, journalist Alejandro Leyva was changeable to decease successful the authorities of Oaxaca.

Federal prosecutors person taken implicit the lawsuit astatine the petition of the Oaxaca authorities, Harfuch said, declining to elaborate further.

Sheinbaum has directed Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez to conscionable with Leyva’s household and volition besides consult with journalists. “We person committed to respective meetings successful hopes of reassuring them that impunity volition not beryllium permitted,” Rodríguez said.

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Sheinbaum denies Ruffo apprehension linked to politics

In effect to a question regarding absorption figures accusing the Sheinbaum medication of governmental persecution, the president denied that national prosecutors are targeting governmental opponents.

Addressing the caller arrest of erstwhile Baja California Governor Ernesto Ruffo — a subordinate of the National Action Party (PAN) — Sheinbaum said Ruffo was ensnared successful a 12-month substance theft probe successful which 8 others were arrested.

“[Ruffo] is the superior shareholder [of Ingemar, the institution accused of transgression activity], but helium was not the ‘target’ … and the probe is ongoing,” she said, adding that immoderate others recovered to beryllium progressive volition beryllium pursued equally.

Sheinbaum said the probe seeks to beryllium that Ingemar was illegally importing substance (and evading taxes) and was fraudulently distributing it. “This has thing to bash with politics,” she said.

With reports from Milenio and Infobae