$16 billion diverted from Mexico’s security and leads to “criminal markets”

Despite the insecurity crisis in Mexico and that the country is world leader in “Criminal Markets”, According to the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-OCD), abbreviated in English, the government of President Andrés Manuel Lopez ObradoR He took over the Security Secretariat and Civil Protection (SSPC) more than 16 billion pesos of the budget for 2024 adopted by the Chamber of Deputies.

According to the Financial Progress Report of the budget programmes approved in the PEF 2024, sent by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to the House of Commons, in the first 5 months of this year they did so budget adjustmentsso the SSPC budget, that It was 102 thousand 946 million 500 thousand pesos for 2024, was reduced to 86 thousand 743 million 600 thousand pesos.

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This is grave In the current context of Mexico, by the Exponential growth of drug cartels in Mexico in recent yearswho wage wars in much of the area because of human trafficking and criminal activities, in which the Citizens are left powerless against criminals, even Businessmen are being executed for reporting protectionist tariffs and extortion.

16% of security cuts by 2024, though Mexico leads “Criminal Markets”

Anyway, The reduction corresponds to 16% of the security resourcesand of the adjusted total (86 billion pesos) for this year, only 24 billion 227 million 300 thousand pesos were used from January to May.

This happens in the middle of a Insecurity crisis with 15,110 murders recorded from January to June from 2024, according to official data announced by the head of the Secretariat for Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.

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In addition, the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), the incidence of common law crime recorded a 1 million 71 thousand 366 crimes from January to June 2024. And 60,428 crimes are recorded under federal jurisdiction.

The results of the biennial study have been added to this panorama Global Organized Crime Index 2023 to 193 countries, where Mexico stands out as a world leader in “criminal markets”.

This index reveals the penetration of organized crime into economieswhere the high incidence of illegal protection charges, human trafficking, trade in synthetic drugs, cocaine, heroin and cannabis (marijuana).

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Mexico, World Leader in “Criminal Markets”: GI-TOC

Below are the countries in order of the largest reach of “Criminal Markets”: In this index, Mexico tops the list, followed by Burma, Iran, Nigeria, and Colombia.

Mexico
Burma
Iran
Nigeria
Colombia
United Arab Emirates
Afghanistan
Brazil
Kenya
South Africa

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“Extortion remains a major problem in almost all cities Mexicans and the municipalities of the states of Michoacan, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Morelos, Nuevo Laredo and Mexico are the ones that register the highest percentages,” the GI-TOC report said.

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The programs most affected by the budgetary adjustment are:

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Security Infrastructure Provisionsintended for the construction of barracks and dormitories, among other things, the cut of which went from 23,272 million 700,000 pesos to 6,235 million 100,000 pesos, which represents 72%.
National Guard operation for the prevention, detection and prosecution of crimeswhose budget was reduced from 36 billion pesos to 35.923 billion.
Supporting the budgetary process and improving institutional efficiencywhich went from 13 thousand 719.7 million pesos to 12 thousand 578.5 million pesos.

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In an interview for The Universal, Javier Oliva, Safety Expertsaid that the cutback on this point is part of a a series of setbacks in the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which have weakened the protection of Mexicans on national territory.

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“In the exercises of 2021 and 2022, Morena and its satellites in the Chamber of Deputies Two federal grants for local public safety have been eliminated: He Subordinates and the Preference.

“And then around 210 municipalities were left without resources for public safety. Part of the crisis of violence the country experiences also has explanation in terms of budgetand this to cut “It will be confirmed in 2024,” he said.

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The professor and full-time researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM also warned that a large part of the to cut could be linked to the purpose of Morena will transfer the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), because most of the lost money was earmarked for infrastructure problems.

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“It is striking that they have decreased in number 70% of the resources for infrastructurethat is to say for the construction of barracks, because this clearly means that there is provision for the National Guard within the reforms that will be implemented From September 1st it will be transferred to Sedena.

“During a recent tour, the president said that she already 420 barracks inaugurated of the National Guard and apparently This cut is in line with the reform “It is constitutional to transfer the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense,” he said.

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Finally, he believed that these decisions, taken at the end of the six-year term, have a negative impact on crime rates across the country.

“These cuts to public safety at the state level and now at the federal level speak volumes a six-year period of working on improvisation in terms of policies and programs public safety: They create subsecretariats and then abolish them. They create institutions and suppress others.

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“So what I see is this unfortunate thread of improvisation in public safety and this six-year term was no exception.

“This six-year term has already surpassed Peña Nieto’s as the most violent in history“We’ve had about 195,000 murders in the entire six-year term, so it’s going to end up being the most violent in history, at least in terms of intentional killings,” he concluded.

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