Homicide Rate Has Fallen 48% Compared to September 2024: Sheinbaum

ByAlonso Urrutia and Arturo Sánchez

This article by Alonso Urrutia and Arturo Sánchez originally appeared in the July 14, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. President Claudia Sheinbaum reported that, with figures through the month of June, the incidence of daily homicides in the country has fallen by 48 percent in relation to those recorded in September 2024, the last month of the previous administration. According to the monthly report on criminal incidence, this means, the president said, that 41 murders a day have been prevented in the comparison of that period. At her press conference, she defended the security strategy based on the four established pillars: attention to the causes; strengthening of the National Guard, use of greater intelligence and investigation, as well as greater coordination among the security forces of the three levels of government.

For her part, the head of the executive secretariat of the National Security Council, Marcela Figueroa, reported that the recurrence of high-impact crimes has also dropped by 53 percent in that same period. She highlighted that in the case of homicides, eight states accounted for 54 percent of the total daily intentional homicides: Guanajuato, Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Michoacán, and Sonora.

She noted that, even though in this same period the number of homicides recorded in Guanajuato has fallen by 68 percent, the murders recorded in that state represent 8.8 percent of the national total, ranking first. However, she pointed out that in Guanajuato homicides dropped from 12.7 in September 2024 to 4.3 in June of this year.

Homicide graph presented at the Morning Conference, July 14

For his part, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, said that the close collaboration of the Secretariats of National Defense, the Navy, as well as the SSPC, has allowed for more precise operations to dismantle criminal cells and reduce their financial capacity.