The scale of impunity
This piece of data may not come as much of a surprise to some long-term residents of Mexico.
If you commit a crime in this country there’s a 0.89-percent chance that you will actually face the consequences and be punished for it. Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona, an investigator at the Colegio de Jalisco, says a new study he and others at the Zapopan-based institute have undertaken show that only 10.54 percent of crimes are reported and that of these, only 14 percent reach a positive outcome. Zepeda’s analysis coincides with the 2017 Global Index of Impunity elaborated by the Universidad de las Américas de Puebla, which reckons the level of impunity in Mexico to be in the region of 99 percent.
Another corpsefound at lakeside
Three weeks after the bodies of two homicide victims were discovered in a creek bed at the northern outskirts of Chapala, another corpse was found early Sunday, August 27, dumped on the side of a back road near San Nicolas de Ibarra. The dismembered and badly decomposed body of the unidentified male was reportedly missing two arms, a leg and the skull.
Lake is filling up
Lake Chapala has risen by 84 centimeters during the current rainy season (temporada de lluvias) that began mid-June, according to National Water Commission figures. The lake currently stands at 59 percent of its full capacity. Meanwhile, the 52 reservoirs in Jalisco are filled to an average of 80 percent capacity, with four designated as being “above 100 percent” full.