Mexico City, April 22, 2025 — President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced a 32.9% reduction in the daily average of intentional homicides between September 2024 and April 2025. The results stem from the implementation of the four pillars of Mexico’s National Public Security Strategy, with preliminary data presented during the morning press conference “The People’s Morning Briefing.”
“We care about the safety of all Mexicans, and everything we do is to ensure peace,” said the president, highlighting the progress achieved under her administration.
According to Marcela Figueroa Franco, Executive Secretary of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), in September 2024 there was an average of 86.9 victims per day, which has decreased to 58.3 in April 2025. On an annual basis, the current average is 72.3 victims per day—a 28.1% decrease compared to 2018.
A total of 51.5% of intentional homicides are concentrated in seven states: Guanajuato (11.8%), State of Mexico (8.2%), Sinaloa (6.9%), Jalisco (6.5%), Guerrero (6.1%), Michoacán (6.0%), and Baja California (5.9%).
Security and Citizen Protection Secretary Omar García Harfuch reported that between October 1, 2024, and April 20, 2025, authorities arrested 18,712 individuals for high-impact crimes, seized over 9,600 firearms, 144 tons of drugs, and dismantled 839 clandestine methamphetamine labs across 17 states. More than 1 million liters and 200 tons of chemical precursors were also confiscated.
As part of Operation Northern Border, more than 2,500 arrests were made, and authorities seized 2,250 weapons, 365,000 cartridges, over 11,000 magazines, and 27 tons of drugs—including 163 kilos and over 1.1 million fentanyl pills.
García Harfuch also noted that cyber patrol operations led to the deactivation of 200 social media accounts used for criminal recruitment, with another 41 accounts currently under investigation.
In the pillar Addressing Root Causes, Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez reported 1,534 Peace Campaigns, delivering over 1.1 million services in 17 priority municipalities across seven states. Public spaces have been reclaimed, and through the “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace” program, 1,381 firearms and 3,373 toy weapons have been exchanged for educational materials.
