Zacatecas, down 83%, leads nationwide reduction in homicides: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property league began with a video nexus to Nuevo León, wherever the national transport curate and different officials were inaugurating operation of a caller railroad betwixt Saltillo, Coahuila, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.

The president subsequently ceded the level to information officials, who presented the latest information connected murders, arrests, cause seizures and firearm confiscations.

Homicides down 32% successful August compared to last period of AMLO’s presidency

Marcela Figueroa Franco, caput of the National Public Security System, reported that determination was an mean of 59.2 homicides per time crossed Mexico successful August.

She highlighted that the fig represents a 32% alteration compared to September 2024, the last period of the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The fig of murders reported past period was the lowest full for immoderate August successful the past 10 years. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

The information for August is preliminary, and specified information is usually revised upward.

Figueroa noted that determination were 27 less homicides per time connected mean successful August compared to September 2024. She besides said that the fig of murders reported past period was the lowest full for immoderate August successful the past 10 years.

Among Mexico’s 32 national entities, Zacatecas recorded the largest simplification successful homicides betwixt September 2024 and August 2025. Murders decreased 82.9% successful Zacatecas, portion San Luis Potosí and Quintana Roo recorded reductions of 71% and 67.7%, respectively.

Figueroa said that murders successful 28 entities were little successful August than successful September 2024.

Murders declined astir 25% successful archetypal 8 months of 2025

Figueroa besides reported that determination was an mean of 68.4 homicides per time crossed Mexico successful the archetypal 8 months of 2025.

The fig represents a diminution of 24.7% compared to the mean regular execution complaint betwixt January and December of 2024.

Over fractional of each murders this twelvemonth were committed successful conscionable 7 states 

Figueroa presented information that showed determination were 16,612 murders successful Mexico successful the archetypal 8 months of 2025.

More than fractional of those homicides — 51.1% — were committed successful the pursuing 7 states:

• Guanajuato: 1934 homicides (11.6% of the nationalist total)
• Chihuahua: 1,207 homicides (7.3%)
• Baja California: 1,184 homicides (7.1%)
• Sinaloa: 1,182 homicides (7.1%)
• México state: 1,095 homicides (6.6%)
• Guerrero: 979 homicides (5.9%)
• Michoacán: 913 homicides (5.5%)

Rounding retired the apical 10 astir convulsive states successful presumption of full homicides betwixt January and August were Jalisco, Sonora and Morelos.

Mexico City recorded the 13th highest fig of murders among Mexico’s 32 national entities. There were 571 murders successful the superior successful the archetypal 8 months of the year, supra the nationalist mean of 519 homicides per state.

Seven states recorded less than 100 homicides betwixt January and August: Yucatán (18), Durango (40), Coahuila (52), Aguascalientes (74), Tlaxcala (82), Campeche (84) and Baja California Sur (96).

Homicides are trending down successful Guanajuato

Although Guanajuato remained Mexico’s astir convulsive authorities successful presumption of full homicides successful the archetypal 8 months of the year, and successful August, execution numbers are trending down.

Figueroa highlighted that the regular mean fig of murders successful the Bajío portion authorities successful August — 5.58 — was 56.1% little than the regular complaint successful February.

She said that murders began to inclination down successful Guanajuato aft the apprehension of assorted “generators of violence” successful March.

Security minister: Crime compartment arrests reduced Guanajuato homicides by 45%

Federal Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said successful precocious March that 9 radical who were arrested were “members of a transgression compartment linked to a radical dedicated to kidnapping, substance theft, cause sales, equipped attacks and principally homicides successful the authorities of Guanajuato.”

The Santa Rosa de Lima transgression enactment has been engaged successful a turf warfare with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel successful Guanajuato successful caller years. Much of the unit successful the authorities is linked to that conflict.

More than 32,000 arrests for ‘high-impact’ crimes successful 11 months

García Harfuch reported that “more than 32,400 radical person been arrested for high-impact crimes” since the Sheinbaum medication took bureau connected Oct. 1, 2024.

He besides said that implicit 16,000 firearms and 245 tonnes of drugs person been seized successful Mexico successful the past 11 months.

In addition, the service and navy person dismantled 1,400 methamphetamine labs crossed 22 states, García Harfuch said.

Sheinbaum congratulates her information cabinet 

After the information presentations, Sheinbaum called for the homicide information to beryllium displayed erstwhile again.

“In August, 27 less radical mislaid their lives [per day] owed to homicide compared to September 2024,” she noted.

“Congratulations to the information furniture and to everyone for their regular work. This simplification is precise significant,” Sheinbaum said.

Headed up by the president, the information furniture includes officials from the Security Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Attorney General’s Office, the army, the navy and the National Guard.

Sheinbaum has attributed the diminution successful homicides achieved during her medication to the implementation of a caller information strategy, which is based connected 4 cardinal pillars including the consolidation of the National Guard and the strengthening of quality gathering.