Overview
- At the morning briefing in Mexico City, President Claudia Sheinbaum and her security cabinet shared national crime metrics drawn from state prosecutors’ reports.
- Government data put the national average at 54.7 intentional homicides per day, a level authorities say is lower than a September 2024 benchmark.
- From January to November 2025, the states with the highest totals were Guanajuato (2,388), Chihuahua (1,661), Baja California (1,586), Sinaloa (1,541) and the State of Mexico (1,424).
- An arms-for-cash program running from October 1, 2024 to December 7, 2025 collected 5,088 handguns, 2,519 long guns, 520,809 cartridges, 11,435 magazines, 1,093 grenades, 15 dynamite cartridges, 245 detonators and 85,014 explosive charges.
- Top officials in attendance included Interior Secretary Rosa Icela, Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch, Defense chief Gen. Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, Navy chief Adm. Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, National Guard commander Hernán Cortés and Secretariado Ejecutivo head Marcela Figueroa.