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Monterrey • Nuevo León has had a violent start of year, after registering in its first nine days, 44 executions, returning to standard indexes of criminality of bloody 2010.
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Monterrey • Nuevo León has had a violent start of year, after registering in its first nine days, 44 executions, returning to standard indexes of criminality of bloody 2010.
Meanwhile the preventive, state and municipal police keep decreasing by the operation of control of confidence and the resignations of elements that arrived from the center and southeast of the country.
2012 closed with a global decrease of around 31 per cent in the figure of executed but emerging January as "hot" since the beginning of the year.
Last year, months like November, June and July registered number of victims of 40, 56 and 68 executed, while in 2011 there were months that had more than 200 deaths.
THERE HAS BEEN 114 HOMICIDES SINCE DECEMBER
In nine days of 2013 ,the 44 executions have already exceeded the 50 percent increase of the 70 homicides registered in December.
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Meanwhile, since the beginning of the new federal administration, from December 1 to date, the number of deaths related to organized crime amounts to 114.
According to declarations of the secretary of communications of the State Government, Jorge Domeme Zambrano, the violent journey is caused by the confrontations between rival groups of the organized crime, basically because of the retail of drugs.
The bloody disputes in the entity occurred after the Federal Government made an important retreat of the troops of federal forces.
Nationally, Nuevo León is the fourth entity with increased homicides by organized crime.
In 2011, one thousand 827 people were murdered while last year the figure was of one thousand 260.
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