“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
The year 2023 closed with a 10% increase in homicides committed on this border. According to a police consensus there was a total of 1163 murders recorded for the past 12 months that just ended. While in the same period of a year ago there were 1054 recorded.
The files that registered these facts indicate that most of the murders were due to the activities of drug trafficking and the buildup of migrants. The analysis of the researchers also found that in 2023, 155 women were murdered. A majority of them were for the same reasons.
There were very few cases due to gender violence and what is considered daily insecurity. For the month of December that has just ended the city of Juarez recorded 98 homicides, the majority of these were due to gunfire.
The disputes between rival groups of organized crime led to murders being committed with greater cruelty in various areas. Acts of violence and the sending of messages to each other were exercised equally with women as with men. There were people shot, mutilated, burned, tortured and strangled.
