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Weekly Report - 28 March 2024 (WR-24-12)
MEXICO: Pre-electoral violence fuels concerns
As many as 66 people were kidnapped in Culiacán, the capital of Mexico’s north-western state of Sinaloa, on 22 March. All bar eight of the kidnap victims were released within four days. It remains unclear who ordered the abductions, although the state public security minister, Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, attributed them to “criminal groups”. They serve as a stark reminder that violence and insecurity remain an everyday concern for many Mexicans. Although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was keen to downplay it there are also signs that there could be a spike in pre-electoral violence ahead of the presidential and congressional elections on 1 June.
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