Overview
- An SSPC daily report counted six victims in Chihuahua and five in Jalisco on Dec. 24, with Estado de México, Morelos and Sinaloa reporting four each.
- Five states concentrated 23 of the 42 killings that day, representing 54.7 percent of the national total.
- Fifteen states reported zero homicides on Dec. 24, including Campeche, Durango, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Veracruz and Zacatecas.
- From Dec. 1 to 24, the month averaged 48.6 homicide victims per day, according to a preliminary federal report compiled by SSPC with SEDENA, SEMAR and the FGR.
- Authorities continue to label Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Guanajuato as crisis zones, and Sinaloa deployed more than 12,000 security personnel across 20 municipalities for the holiday period.