Murders linked to organized crime dropped 33 percent in Mexico last year, official figures showed Friday, as the country struggles with a bloody drug war.
Security experts however have consistently questioned the reliability of the government's crime statistics, which showed such murders fell to 6,797 in 2014, compared to 10,076 in 2013, the first year that President Enrique Pena Nieto was in power.
The figures were provided by his office.
The 2013 numbers were already a 32 percent decrease compared to the year before.
The Mexican leader faced one of the worst crises of his presidency in late September when 43 students disappeared after they were reportedly attacked by municipal police and members of the Guerreros Unidos gang in the southern city of Iguala.
Murders linked to organized crime dropped 33 percent in Mexico last year, official figures showed Friday, as the country struggles with a bloody drug war.
Security experts however have consistently questioned the reliability of the government’s crime statistics, which showed such murders fell to 6,797 in 2014, compared to 10,076 in 2013, the first year that President Enrique Pena Nieto was in power.
The figures were provided by his office.
The 2013 numbers were already a 32 percent decrease compared to the year before.
The Mexican leader faced one of the worst crises of his presidency in late September when 43 students disappeared after they were reportedly attacked by municipal police and members of the Guerreros Unidos gang in the southern city of Iguala.
