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The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border. 2007 (book) [30] Stella Pope Duarte. If I Die In Juárez. 2008 (novel) Valerie Martinez. Each and Her. 2010 (poems) Charles Bowden. Murder City: Cuidad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. 2011. (book) Nancy Pineda-Madrid.
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
After the homicide rates escalated to the point of making Ciudad Juárez the most violent city in the world, violent crime began to decline in the early 2010s. [49] In 2012, homicides were at their lowest rate since 2007 when drug violence flared between the Sinaloa and Juárez Cartel . [ 50 ]
2020 saw an increase in femicides; in the first seven months of 2020, reports suggested 2,000 femicides had occurred. Mexico is considered one of the countries with more femicides in Latin America and the world, among the most dangerous states is the State of Mexico, especially for one of its municipalities: Ecatepec, since in this state 84 murders were reported in the first months of the year.
Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime. Low apprehension and conviction rates contribute to the high crime rate. Before the drug war in Mexico, there were roughly 300 murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez in 2007. In 2010, state officials reported a peak of 3,622 homicides in the city.
Femicide, broadly defined as the murder of a woman motivated by gender, is a prevalent issue in Latin America. [1] [2] In 2016, 14 of the top 25 nations with the highest global femicide rates were Latin American or Caribbean states. [1]
Since many crimes go unreported, the rates may be much higher than reported by the government. [6] The murder rate in 2023 was 23.3 per 100,000. [7] Most of the crime is committed by a small proportion of the population involved in the drug trade with about half of murders drug related. [8] Assault and theft make up the vast majority of crimes.
Joaquín Guzmán Loera's four-year struggle in Ciudad Juárez left more than 10,000 dead since 2008, [62] but evidence shows that the murder rates in Ciudad Juárez decreased by 59.8% in the first half of 2012 when compared to the same period in 2011, and Mexican officials attributed this decline to the success of its law enforcement agencies. [63]