The Mexican Celaya, in the central state of Guanajuato, leads with 109.38 murders for every 100,000 inhabitants the “Ranking 2020 from 50 most violent cities in the world“, which was presented by the Civil Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice.
In the report’s presentation, the organization warned that of the 10 most violent cities in the world, seven are Mexican: Celaya in the first place, Tijuana in the second, Ciudad Juárez in the third, Ciudad Obregón in the fourth, Irapuato in the fifth, Ensenada in the sixth and Uruapan in the eighth.
The top 10 is completed by the American St. Louis in seventh place, the Brazilian Feira de Santana in ninth and Cape Town in South Africa in tenth.
Out of the 50 cities of the index, 18 are located in Mexico, 11 in Brazil, 6 in Venezuela, 5 in USA, 4 in South Africa, 2 in Colombia, 2 in Honduras, one in Puerto Rico and one in Jamaica, said José Antonio Ortega, president of the Citizen Council.
“Mexico It has been the worldwide epicenter of murderous violence for 2 years now. It’s no coincidence. In 2019 and 2020, the worst crime-fighting policies have been implemented by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ” said Ortega, one of the investigators.
The report is presented in a context where Mexico has recorded the 2 most violent years in its history with 34,681 murder victims in 2019 and 34,552 in 2020, according to official data.
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The ladder of the Citizen Council It is based on an analysis of official figures of intentional murders in cities with 300,000,000 inhabitants or more that are not in declared belligerent conflict.
This is the fourth year in a row that a mexican city is the most violent in the worldOrtega complained.
“What is the pattern that distinguishes them? It is that in these (Mexican) cities we are seeing intense, stronger activity by the armed militias of the criminal groups fighting for the place, not just because of the drug trade,” explains the specialist. .
The expert highlighted the contrast in Central America’s progress by noting that Guatemala City left the index in 2020 and a year earlier San Salvador was dropped from the list, while until 2014 the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula was the first. position occupied.
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It also reported that the average rate of the 12 Brazilian cities included in the current ranking is 47.27 intentional murders per 100,000 residents, while the average rate of the 18 Mexican cities was 67.09.
The specialist attributed the increase to López Obrador’s “failed” security strategy, which he accused of evading criminal groups’ control despite his militarization strategy.
“Today the country is more violent than how he received it, today we have more deliberate killings in the country than when he received the presidency of this country (in December 2018),” he said.
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