Most Mexicans live in fear. This is hardly surprising considering that in some of the country's most dreaded principalities, mutilated human corpses litter the landscape.
You may not believe it but 31,000 people were killed in Mexico last year, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Also, in the first six months of this year 16,000 people were killed. This was the highest number since the government began keeping records in 1997.
Hear 36-year-old Karla Cortes, a school teacher :
“I’m terrified. I can’t sleep at night. In Ecatepec, I feel like we’re not even living, we’re just surviving.”
In Mexico, according to records, on average there are 89 homicides a day, or almost four an hour.
According to Gustavo Mohar, former director of international affairs at Mexico’s Centre for Investigation and National Security, “The country is in flames. We are living through a very serious security crisis. There is no more urgent or more complex challenge to be addressed.”
The people are now putting their faith in Andrés Manuel López Obrador to end the bloodshed. Mr López Obrador was elected as president in a landslide victory in June on a promise to bring peace to Mexico “without bloodshed.”
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