Mexico's president gave his second-to-last state of the union address and perhaps what was most striking about his 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn't talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels.
from 49.9% of the population in 2018 to 43.5% in 2022, though that was in some part due to the huge rise in remittances, the money sent home by Mexicans working abroad.
He claimed Mexico has seen a drop of 17% in homicides under his administration, but in fact homicides had already fallen about 7% from their mid-2018 peak when López Obrador took office in December of that year. The president is essentially taking credit for a drop that started under his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto.
However, the number of killings nationwide appears to have essentially flatlined in the first half of 2023, when there were 15,122 killings, compared to 15,381 in the same period of 2022. At the current rate, López Obrador’s administration will see far more homicides than any of his predecessors. . There was also no mention of the fact that seizures of methamphetamines rose from about 36 tons in all of 2022 to a whopping 230 tons in the first eight months of 2023.to enter some towns to do census work last year.
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