Security officials report nearly 19,000 “high impact” arrests: MAUGED MADIDIE MAISANERE

Federal security officials attended the press conference on Tuesday morning at President Claudia Sheinbaum to present the government’s bimonthly update on the dominant security situation in Mexico.

Later in the MañaneraSheinbaum answered a question about his personal security arrangements.

Homicides since Sheinbaum took office

Marcela Figueroa Franco, head of the national public security system, presented the latest homicide data.

She indicated that Mexico had recorded an average of 58.3 homicides in the first 21 days of April, according to preliminary data provided by the 32 offices of the country’s attorney general.

Figueroa stressed that the figure represents a “preliminary reduction” of 32.9% compared to last September, the last month of the duration of six years of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The data she presented showed that homicides have decreased from one month to the other in each of the first three months of the Sheinbaum administration. After an increase in January, the number of murders resumed its downward trend in February.

Figueroa also presented data showing that the number of homicides has decreased each year since 2021.

Preliminary data has shown that Mexico had recorded an average of 72.3 homicides per day between January 1 and April 21, a decrease of 12% compared to the daily average in 2024.

Figueroa stressed that the number of murders fell 28.1% in 2025 compared to 2018, a year in which Enrique Peña Nieto was president of the first 11 months.

The reduction of homicides this year comes after The federal government presented a new security strategy in October. Compared to the previous federal government, the Sheinbaum administration has demonstrated a greater desire to combat crime groups organized proactively and has also decided to strengthen survey and intelligence practices.

Even the most violent Guanajuato in Mexico

Figueroa also presented preliminary data that showed that Mexico had recorded 1,225 homicides in the first 21 days of April.

Guanajuato – The most violent state in Mexico in terms of total murders in recent years – has seen 145 homicides in the first three weeks of the month, representing 11.8% of the total homicides in April. Various criminal groups operate in the Bajío region, including the Santa Rosa cartel of Lima Local and the cartel of Jalisco New Generation. These criminal groups have been fighting for years.

After Guanajuato, the most violent states of Mexico so far this month are:

• México State: 101 homicides
• Sinaloa: 84 homicides
• Jalisco: 80 homicides
• Guerrero: 75 homicides
• Michoacán: 74 homicides
• Baja California: 72 homicides

Figueroa noted that 51.5% of all homicides occurred this month in the seven aforementioned states.

Mexico City recorded 52 homicides in the first 21 days of the month, making it the most violent entity in the country. Two states – Durango and Yucatán – have not pointed out any murder so far this month.

Nearly 19,000 arrests for “high impact crimes”

The Minister of Security Omar García Harfuch, Survivor of a cartel attack in 2020 in Mexico CitySpeed ​​about a range of results that the federal government has since obtained since Sheinbaum took office on October 1.

He said that:

• The authorities arrested 18,712 people for “high impact crimes” such as murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking and extortion.
• Authorities have seized 144 tonnes of drugs, including more than 2 million fentanyl pills.
• Authorities have confiscated more than 9,600 firearms.
• The army and the navy “destroyed” 839 clandestine drug laboratories in 17 states.

García later recognized that a federal security guard died on Monday after being shot in the city of León, Guanajuato.

“Our sincere condolences to his family. The death of our colleague will not remain unpunished. There are already two people arrested,” he said.

“ We cannot move away from people ”

A journalist told Sheinbaum that people had expressed concerns about his personal security given the “great results” of the security that his government has obtained and the fact that she “continues to walk on the country” like any other citizen.

The involvement was that the president could be vulnerable to an assassination attempt during his tours on weekends when she approaches his supporters in various parts of the country.

Despite the risk perceived (and perhaps real) expressed by the journalist, Sheinbaum said that she will not change his approach, a modeled on that of his predecessor and mentor, Amlo, who mixed with Mexicans from all horizons, and undoubtedly benefited politically from his penchant to do this.

“We cannot move away from the people,” said the president.

“The day we get away from the people is the day we stop being a government of the people and for the people,” said Sheinbaum.

“So we’re going to stay close (people), especially on weekends,” she said.

Amlo said That “people will protect me” after making the decision to largely avoid a personal security detail. Rather, he has enlisted a team of young assistants mainly young to seek security risks, a task that they have not always performed as well as they could have hoped.

Sheinbaum also has a team of assistants (called collectively portion) who help him in terms of security.

“There are 15, or less,” she told journalists on Tuesday.

She noted that the National Guard is “sometimes” present on the highways on which she travels during her tour of the country.

“There is a presence of the guard, in general,” she added.

By the editor -in -chief of Mexico News Daily Peter Davies ((Protected by e-mail)))