Posted on 09/03/2019 12:25:39 PM PDT by BeauBo
It was the third consecutive month with more than 2,000 such murders.
Murders attributed to organized crime broke a record in August at 2,290, a 77.8% increase over the same month last year.
It was the third month in a row with over 2,000 such murders — there were 2,264 in July and 2,249 in June.
With 240 murder cases, Guanajuato topped the list of the most violent states, followed by México state with 206, Baja California 196, Veracruz 176, Jalisco 167 and Michoacán 128.
The month’s most striking case, however, is that of Veracruz, which saw one of the year’s worst massacres when an attack on a nightclub in Coatzacoalcos left 30 dead and 13 injured.
The attack bumped the murder rate in the state by 35.3% over the previous month.
Although Michoacán saw just one more murder than in July and did not surpass its June total of 140 cases, it also stood out in August for two grave instances of violence linked to narco-trafficking.
The first was on August 8 when the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) left 19 bodies hanging from an overpass in Uruapan. The second was Friday’s gun battle in Tepalcatepec between the CJNG and a rival, Juan José “El Abuelo” (The Grandfather) Farías Álvarez, which left nine dead.
Guanajuato is the battleground between the CJNG and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. The bitter rivalry sent the state’s homicide rate up to 240 cases, shattering July’s total of 185.
(Excerpt) Read more at mexiconewsdaily.com ...
Much of this extreme violence (gang infighting) is in Central Mexico, but the cartels involved operate across the length of our Southern Border.
The 15 mile segment of President Trump's wall that started last week in the Imperial Valley of Central California, was specifically in response to activity there by the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which is mentioned in the story for their recent terroristic mass killing (19 bodies hanging from an overpass in Uruapan).
Honey, I know where to book the vacation!
Caravans?
I’m thinking that since Mexico isn’t sending as many of “their best” to the USA that they’re making Mexico Great Again? /s
I wonder how that total compares with the murders in the top 25-30 American Progressive Ghetto cities for the same period?
“I wonder how that total compares with the murders in the top 25-30 American Progressive Ghetto cities for the same period?”
Per capita murder rates (2017):
Rank City Country Homicide Rate (Per 100,000)
1 Los Cabos Mexico 111.33
2 Caracas Venezuela 111.19
3 Acapulco Mexico 106.63
4 Natal Brazil 102.56
5 Tijuana Mexico 100.77
6 La Paz Mexico 84.79
7 Fortaleza Brazil 83.48
8 Ciudad Victoria Mexico 83.32
9 Ciudad Guyana Venezuela 80.28
10 Belem Brazil 71.38
11 Vitoria da Conquista Brazil 70.26
12 Culiacan Mexico 70.10
13 St. Louis United States 65.83
14 Maceio Brazil 63.94
15 Cape Town South Africa 62.25
16 Kingston Jamaica 59.71
17 San Salvador El Salvador 59.06
18 Aracaju Brazil 58.88
19 Feira de Santana Brazil 58.81
20 Ciudad Juárez Mexico 56.16
21 Baltimore United States 55.48
22 Recife Brazil 54.96
23 Maturin Venezuela 54.43
24 Guatemala City Guatemala 53.49
25 Salvador Brazil 51.58
26 San Pedro Sula Honduras 51.18
27 Valencia Venezuela 49.74
28 Cali Colombia 49.59
29 Chihuahua Mexico 49.48
30 Joao Pessoa Brazil 49.17
31 Obregon Mexico 48.96
32 San Juan Puerto Rico 48.70
33 Barquisimeto Venezuela 48.23
34 Manaus Brazil 48.07
35 Distrito Central Honduras 48.00
36 Tepic Mexico 47.09
37 Palmira Colombia 46.65
38 Reynosa Mexico 41.95
39 Porto Alegre Brazil 40.96
40 Macapa Brazil 40.24
41 New Orleans United States 40.10
42 Detroit United States 39.69
43 Mazatlan Mexico 39.32
44 Durban South Africa 38.12
45 Campos dos Goytacazes Brazil 37.53
46 Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa 37.53
47 Campina Grande Brazil 37.29
48 Teresina Brazil 37.05
49 Vitoria Brazil 36.07
50 Cucuta Colombia 34.78
I used to vacation in Mexico frequently up to even 15 years ago. Wouldn’t even dream of it now.
Nice list. I didn’t realize New Orleans and Detroit were worse than Chicago, which did not even make it to the list.
Chicago: https://heyjackass.com
As for Mexico, I lived in a border town decades ago and even when it was safe to go across the border for dinner or a day trip, I hated everything about it. Every time I went to Mexico, something awful happened.
Advertising crime in Chicago doesn’t fit the agenda. Somebody’s cooking the books.
Gun control utopia.......spit
For the first time ever today I saw a car (small compact in good shape) here with a Mexican license plate in the Toronto area. Never seen one here before. We get almost all the US states here save Hawaii but never seen a Mexican plate until today. Not sure what it means though.
Hispanic living in Tijuana: “Take me to Detroit!”
“For the first time ever today I saw a car (small compact in good shape) here with a Mexican license plate in the Toronto area... Not sure what it means though.”
I saw a separate story that some of the migrants are starting to aim for Canada, instead of the USA.
Lawless Failed Country
What Is Law?
What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.
Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?
If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.
The Law - Frederic Bastiat
There were more than 33,000 homicides in Mexico in 2018.
Firearms regulation in Mexico
From Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Mexico
[Excerpt:]
“Mexico has extremely restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There is only one gun store in the entire country, and it takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.[3]”
That’s what this country will look like, if more gun control bills are passed into law.
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