Overview
- Official records analyzed by Coparmex show 6,562 extortion victims in the first half of 2026, a 9.17% increase from the same period in 2025.
- About seven in 10 recorded extortion cases were committed at a distance via internet, social media, or telephone under the Registro Nacional de Incidencia Delictiva’s new classification.
- Nineteen states registered year‑over‑year increases and 12 hit their highest first‑semester totals in 11 years, with the largest percentage jumps in Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Yucatán and Tabasco and the highest rate per 100,000 people in Morelos.
- Counting problems make the real scale unclear because INEGI estimates roughly 97% of extortion goes unreported and the RNID’s new methodology changes how cases are classified across states.
- Coparmex is urging faster, tougher enforcement of the national anti‑extortion law and expanded prevention measures because the rise, driven by remote tactics, raises risks for households and small businesses and will likely prompt calls for stronger digital policing and reporting reforms.