Murders rise to record in Mexican president's first year in office

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Slayings, often fuelled by the nation’s drug cartels, climbed to 34,582 last year.

The 2.5% increase represents the least since homicides fell in 2014 and compared with increases of 17% to 28% in the previous three years. While Lopez Obrador, known popularly by the abbreviation AMLO, has managed to maintain his approval at 72%, according to a poll by newspaper El Financiero published earlier this month, voters probably would hold his Morena party responsible for poor security results at mid-term congressional elections in 2021, Romero said.

In November he floated classifying them as terrorist organisations. In December, after a visit to Mexico City by US Attorney General William Barr, Trump said he was holding off “temporarily” on the proposal at the request of Lopez Obrador.

 

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