メキシコ、昨年の殺人件数は３万４５８２件　過去最多に

【メキシコ市ＡＦＰ＝時事】メキシコ治安省の20日の発表によると、同国で2019年に発生した殺人件数は過去最多だった前年の3万3743件を上回り、1997年の統計開始以来最多の3万4582件となった。（写真は資料写真）
　１日当たりの平均発生件数は９５件となる計算で、犠牲者が最多となった６月にはひと月で２９９３人が殺害された。
　メキシコでは麻薬撲滅戦争が激しさを増した２００６年以降、暴力事件がまん延している。公式統計によるとそれ以来２７万５０００人近くが殺されているが、これら被害者のうち何人が組織犯罪と関わりがあったのかについては明確になっていない。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/01/22-12:25）

There were nearly 35,000 murders in Mexico in 2019, the highest rate since 1997, the first year for which there is an official record, according to official data released Monday.
This has broken the previous highest rate, set in 2018 with 33,743 homicides.
According to a report from the Secretariat of Public Security, June had the highest rate of murders, with 2,993 victims out of a total 34,582 murders in 2019.
The 2019 rate equals an average of 95 homicides per day in Mexico, a country that has been plagued with violence since 2006, when the war on drugs was militarized.
Since then, nearly 275,000 people have been killed in Mexico, according to official figures that do not specify how many of the cases are linked to organized crime.
Leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who in December completed the first year of his six-year term, is struggling to rein in violent crime widely blamed on Mexico's drug cartels and other criminal gangs.