Mexico Security Update - 8 January 2020

After a violent 2019, Mexico opens 2020 with scattered violence driven by various criminal conflicts

As expected, 2019 ended as Mexico’s most violent year in recent history. More than 31,000 people were murdered, though it will take a few more weeks for the specific final statistics to be tabulated.

In spite of its small physical size, Guanajuato ended the year as the country’s most violent state in terms of both raw numbers and per capita. With almost …