SEP Books / Homicides Decrease

SEP Books. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the court’s decision to suspend the distribution of SEP books and said this was an arbitrary and unfair measure. “They should issue a final resolution on the situation. We will respect this decision, although we have the right to protest."

Recently, Mario Ángel Flores, former Dean, Universidad Pontificia de México, and current Director, National Observatory of the Episcopate, said that the SEP books are based on the ideology of "a radical group of Marxists."  As a result, several governors have called for a halt to the distribution of SEP books. Last week,  López Obrador said the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) agrees with the content of the new basic education books prepared by the SEP. He reiterated that the books were designed by pedagogues, teachers and education specialists.

Homicides Decrease. Minister of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, highlighted that intentional homicide is still going down, stressing a decrease of 19.9 percent compared to the maximum registered in 2018.

According to INEGI, there were 30,968 homicides in the country in 2022, with an average of 85 cases per day. In 2021, the average per day was 91. The most violent state was Guanajuato, with 3,260 intentional homicides. However, authorities noted that results showed a 7.3 percent decrease in 2021. The government highlighted that this is the third consecutive year that homicides have decreased. The figure reached its highest level in 2009, during the administration of President Felipe Calderón, who declared a war on drug cartels.

Migration. The president announced that the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has already ordered that the buoys in the Rio Grande must be placed only in US territory to not get  into sovereignty problems with Mexico.

Recently, López Obrador criticized Texas' decision to place buoys with barbed wire in the Rio Bravo to stop migration, since two bodies have been found near the area. Immigration policies have been at the center of the US-Mexico relationship since the end of Title 42 in May. This policy prevented asylum seekers from seeking US protection and allowed the US to return migrants to their home countries or Mexico within hours of arrival.  Since its termination, states, such as Texas, have feared the arrival of more migrants. As a result, authorities have further complicated the usual paths of migrants.