Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article
Subject Matter: Homicides in Veracruz
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
In May sources gave account of 143 persons who were victims or violent homicide, events apparently related to organized crime. Cordoba, Poza Rica, Coatzacoalcos and Veracruz are the cities with the highest rate of incidents.
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State and Federal authorities are coordinating forces to redouble the security in the zones of the State with the most criminal incidents, organized criminals have Veracruz in a bloodbath, and every day there are more executions, in May there were no less than 143 in total.
For the Priista Senator Hector Yunes Landa, he has not spared the Federal support for security, and more soldiers and more marines, Federal Preventative Police and National Gendarmerie, but despite all these reinforcements, they have not been able to rescue the State from the clutches of organized crime.
"Insecurity today, as never before, hurts all Veracruzans. Families feel vulnerable to it and impunity; Today, in our State, crimes are committed virtually at any time, and anywhere", said the legislator.
He pointed out that so far this year, more than a hundred violent homicides per month have been committed, which is equivalent to 4 per day and every six hours a Vercruz victim is killed.
It is the war between groups of criminals that is intensifying every day, the journalistic records record 143 executions in the month of May but the figure is probably much higher.
The number from December to May is 831, with Cordoba having the highest number with 47 victims, followed by Poza Rica with 44, Veracruz with 40, Papantla with 35, Coatzacoalcos with 30 and the bottom of the table are Panuco with 25 and Xalapa with 22.
Moreover, the National Citizens Observatory considers Veracruz to date the highest for kidnapping, with an increase of 18.5 to 26 victims as a monthly average.
Yesterday, Wednesday May 31st, there were two kidnappings in the heart of Coatzacoalcos, however the worst area is the Poza Rica-Tuxpan, where even businessmen and their families have begun to carry weapons to protect themselves from delinquency.
The figures from the same National Citizen Observatory show that the kidnapping growth in the State is 40% higher than in the last 12 months.
Thus, with the recent arrival of 200 elements of the Federal Police in the city of Poza Rica, where oil workers, traders, industrialists and citizens in general fear from their lives and that of their families, crime is expected to ease in the short term, however the forecasts are not very optimistic.
Original article in Spanish at Noreste
Subject Matter: Homicides in Veracruz
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
In May sources gave account of 143 persons who were victims or violent homicide, events apparently related to organized crime. Cordoba, Poza Rica, Coatzacoalcos and Veracruz are the cities with the highest rate of incidents.
State and Federal authorities are coordinating forces to redouble the security in the zones of the State with the most criminal incidents, organized criminals have Veracruz in a bloodbath, and every day there are more executions, in May there were no less than 143 in total.
For the Priista Senator Hector Yunes Landa, he has not spared the Federal support for security, and more soldiers and more marines, Federal Preventative Police and National Gendarmerie, but despite all these reinforcements, they have not been able to rescue the State from the clutches of organized crime.
"Insecurity today, as never before, hurts all Veracruzans. Families feel vulnerable to it and impunity; Today, in our State, crimes are committed virtually at any time, and anywhere", said the legislator.
He pointed out that so far this year, more than a hundred violent homicides per month have been committed, which is equivalent to 4 per day and every six hours a Vercruz victim is killed.
It is the war between groups of criminals that is intensifying every day, the journalistic records record 143 executions in the month of May but the figure is probably much higher.
The number from December to May is 831, with Cordoba having the highest number with 47 victims, followed by Poza Rica with 44, Veracruz with 40, Papantla with 35, Coatzacoalcos with 30 and the bottom of the table are Panuco with 25 and Xalapa with 22.
Moreover, the National Citizens Observatory considers Veracruz to date the highest for kidnapping, with an increase of 18.5 to 26 victims as a monthly average.
Yesterday, Wednesday May 31st, there were two kidnappings in the heart of Coatzacoalcos, however the worst area is the Poza Rica-Tuxpan, where even businessmen and their families have begun to carry weapons to protect themselves from delinquency.
The figures from the same National Citizen Observatory show that the kidnapping growth in the State is 40% higher than in the last 12 months.
Thus, with the recent arrival of 200 elements of the Federal Police in the city of Poza Rica, where oil workers, traders, industrialists and citizens in general fear from their lives and that of their families, crime is expected to ease in the short term, however the forecasts are not very optimistic.
Original article in Spanish at Noreste