President Claudia Sheinbaum’s security cabinet has reported significant progress in reducing crime and violence in Mexico.
Between September 2024 and April 2025, intentional homicides dropped by 32.9 percent, from 87 to 58.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. Additionally, 712 individuals involved in high-impact crimes were arrested, and authorities seized 144 tons of drugs, including over two million fentanyl pills, 9,600 weapons, and 839 clandestine laboratories. Among those arrested are prominent criminal leaders from Chiapas, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Tijuana and Guanajuato.
Public Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said police operations are mostly focused on the seven states that account for more than half of the murders in Mexico: Guanajuato, the State of Mexico, Sinaloa, Baja California, Jalisco, Guerrero and Michoacán.