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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 862807" data-attributes="member: 12952">Decoding Mexico’s murder mayhemNew numbers show Mexico could be in for its bloodiest year yet.Ioan GrilloMEXICO CITY, Mexico — For all its mass graves,&nbsp; mutilations and massacres, Mexico has long claimed that it is much safer&nbsp; than Brazil and other Latin American counties.But new homicide numbers suggest that might not be the case this year.A report handed quietly to the nation’s Congress earlier this month&nbsp; found that in the first five months of 2011, a staggering 18,468&nbsp; homicides had been reported.It was the bloodiest period in Mexico’s recent history, with more&nbsp; killings than any five months since the government began compiling&nbsp; national homicide numbers in 1997.As recently as 2009, President Felipe Calderon had pointed out that&nbsp; despite the notorious drug war, Mexico was still less murderous than&nbsp; Brazil with its reputation for thong-filled beaches and samba nights.The media attention on Mexico’s violence in contrast to Brazil’s&nbsp; economic growth has given a skewed picture to investors, the president&nbsp; argued.But many victims of crimes now say that the killings here need more rather than less attention.“There is no security for any citizen here,” said Javier Sicilia, an&nbsp; anti-crime activist, whose son was murdered in March. “We have to&nbsp; pressure for every one of these murders to be solved. This can’t go on.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 862807, member: 12952"] [B]Decoding Mexico’s murder mayhem New numbers show Mexico could be in for its bloodiest year yet. Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, Mexico — [/B]For all its mass graves, mutilations and massacres, Mexico has long claimed that it is much safer than Brazil and other Latin American counties. But new homicide numbers suggest that might not be the case this year. A report handed quietly to the nation’s Congress earlier this month found that in the first five months of 2011, a staggering 18,468 homicides had been reported. It was the bloodiest period in Mexico’s recent history, with more killings than any five months since the government began compiling national homicide numbers in 1997. As recently as 2009, President Felipe Calderon had pointed out that despite the notorious drug war, Mexico was still less murderous than Brazil with its reputation for thong-filled beaches and samba nights. The media attention on Mexico’s violence in contrast to Brazil’s economic growth has given a skewed picture to investors, the president argued. But many victims of crimes now say that the killings here need more rather than less attention. “There is no security for any citizen here,” said Javier Sicilia, an anti-crime activist, whose son was murdered in March. “We have to pressure for every one of these murders to be solved. This can’t go on.” [/QUOTE]

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