• The head of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, Marcela Figueroa Franco, reported that the first six months of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration was marked by a downtrend month by month in the daily average number of victims of intentional homicide. September 2024 recorded an average of 86.9 victims, while in March 2025 the figure was 74.7, a reduction of 12 homicides per day, a 14 percent decrease.
• March 2025 posted the lowest numbers for that month since 2018. In addition, the first quarter of 2025 saw the lowest number of intentional homicide victims since the same period in 2018.
• In annual terms, the daily average number of intentional homicide victims is 75. 5, while in 2018 it was 100, a 24.8 percent decrease.
• The national average of intentional homicide victims, from October 2024 to March 2025 was 440.69 victims per state; 17 states were below this average, while seven states (Guanajuato; Baja California; State of Mexico; Chihuahua; Sinaloa; Guerrero and Jalisco) account for 51.5 percent of the total number of victims.
• In these first six months of the Sheinbaum administration, homicides decreased in 27 states, with Baja California posting a 31.3 percent decline and the State of Mexico a 19.3 percent decrease.
• In October 2024 an average of 635.9 high impact crimes were registered. Since then, a downward trend can be noted, with March 2025 registering 538.2 crimes, a 15.4 percent decrease, equivalent to 98 fewer victims per day.
• Minister of Security and Citizen Protection Omar García Harfuch emphasized that in the first six months of President Sheinbaum’s administration, 17,258 suspects were arrested for high impact crimes and nearly 9,000 firearms, more than 140 tons of drugs, including nearly 1.5 tons and more than 2 million fentanyl pills were seized. In addition, more than 750 drug labs and storage facilities for the production of methamphetamines have been dismantled in 17 states.
• In Guerrero, during the past six months, homicides have fallen 46 percent; in Guanajuato they have declined 48 percent in the past three weeks; in Tabasco they decreased 42.2 percent from February 15 to date. In Baja California, the decrease was 31.3 percent between September 2024 and March 2025 and in Sinaloa, 25.8 percent between October 2025 and March 2025.
• As part of Operation Northern Border, from February 5 to April 6, 2025, more than 2,000 suspects have been arrested for high-impact crimes and nearly 2,000 firearms, more than 300,000 rounds of various types of ammunition, almost 10,000 magazines, and over 26 tons of drugs, including more than one million fentanyl pills, have been seized.
• Minister of the Interior Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez reported that as part of the Strategy to Attend to the Causes of Crime, 122 Peace Fairs have been held. In addition, with the “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace” campaign, from January 10, 2025 to April 7, 2025, some 1,297 firearms have been turned in. These include 875 handguns, 302 rifles, and 120 grenades, in addition to cartridges and clips.
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