In its most recent report the Mexico Evalua organization indicated an increase in 20 states regarding disappearance of peoplehighlighting cases in which this crime is greater than the number of malicious homicides confirmed by local and federal authorities.
In its analysis from January to March, changes from 2024 to 2025, the organization identifies that regions with the highest disappearance rates are also affected by Territorial disputes between criminal groups.
Cases such as the State of Mexico with groups of robbery to carriers and fuel traffic; Quintana Roo with the dispute between the CJNG and the Caborca cartel; Michoacán with a war between the CJNG and local groups; Sinaloa with the war between the Chapitos and the Mayiza; Sonora and Baja California with disputes between CJNG allies, Los Chapitos, La Mayiza and the Caborca cartel.
The states with the highest rates of missing persons per 100,000 inhabitants are Puebla (405), Campeche (198.8), Mexico City (139.1), Sinaloa (148.8), Sonora (45.4) and Querétaro (130.8).
However, Mexico evaluates that crimes for disappearing people in 11 states exceed reports of malicious homicides in the analyzed period; In addition, it puts special emphasis on the cases of the State of Mexico, Mexico City and Puebla.
“The federal government uses the absolute number of victims of homicide at national level to measure the success of the public security strategy. However, these data invisible the situation that each of the entities is going through and leave out of the discussion issues such as the homicidal violence against women or the disappearance of people”the organization said in its report.
In terms of violence, Mexico evaluates that it has a first time so far from 2025 it was intensified in One third of the national territorybeing the states of Colima (21.2), Sinaloa (20.5), Morelos (18.4), Sonora (18.4) and Guanajuato (18), entities with the highest rates of homicidal violence per 100 thousand inhabitants.
Regarding the states where homicidal violence had greater increase, the organization stands out to Sinaloa (276.5), Mexico City (153.3), Puebla (130.7), Nayarit (99.6) and Baja California Sur (90.6).
“For the first time since the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum began we recorded ten entities with a very negative balance of the Homicidal violence. This is continued to point out in the states that are under the dispute of various criminal organizations ”:
- Sinaloa
- Sonora
- Tabasco
- Guanajuato
- Quintana Roo
- Mexico City
- Puebla
- Nayarit
- Michoacán
- Baja California
“The northeast is increasingly consolidated as the most violent region in the country. Violence associated with Conflict in Sinaloa has spread to Nayarit and Baja Californiaentities that now record a very negative balance. The conflict in Sinaloa could be promoting regional reconfiguration of criminal regimes in these entities. “Highlights Mexico evaluates.
