“Stop lying, President, your government has more murders”: Ciro to AMLO

This Wednesday, March 3, during his morning press conference, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, He blamed the president’s six-year term Felipe Calderon Hinojosa of major homicides, the communicator Ciro Gómez Leyva He turned to him: “stop lying, President”, your government is the one that registers the most murders against journalists and candidates.

In the final stretch of this day’s radio program that is broadcast by Grupo Formula called Ciro Gómez Leyva in the morningthe journalist was forceful when deny AMLO.

“President, that is false!it is false, president, One more liethat is absolutely false, The government with the highest number of murdered Mexicans is yours.“.

Ciro Gómez Leyva

And he continued: “The government with the highest number of journalists murdered it’s yours. The government with highest number of aspiring candidates killed it’s yours”.

Journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva asked AMLO not to tell lies and not to change the facts with falsehoods.

It is not with Calderón; It is in the AMLO government where more journalists and candidates are murdered: Ciro

“Stop lying presidentstop lying. You can’t have such contempt for the words, for information, for the recording of facts“.

“How many people died in the 2006 election? Zero; How many in the 2021 election? More than 40 or 50. And say what the six-year term with The largest number of assassinated candidates is that of Felipe Calderon, that is absolutely false“, concluded the journalist at the end of his program.

Inegi: AMLO government with more Mexicans murdered than previous six-year periods

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi)confirms the statements of Ciro Gómez Leyva in a report released in January of this year, where he reveals that the Government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador adds 160,594 homicides as of June 2023 in his first four and a half years of his six-year term.

With this figure, the AMLO’s government surpasses the record of homicides achieved during the administration of his predecessorsEnrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderon.

According to data from Inegi “Deaths due to homicides“, López Obrador has already surpassed the homicide record before finishing his term.

Inegi data show that, under previous Mexican governments, the following homicides were recorded:

• Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León: 80,671 (December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000)
• Vicente Fox Quesada: 60,280 (December 1, 2000 to November 30, 2006)
• Felipe Calderón Hinojosa: 120,463 (from December 1, 2006 to November 30, 2012)
• Enrique Peña Nieto: 156,066 (from December 1, 2012 to November 30, 2018)
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 160,594 murders (from December 1, 2018 to June 30, 2023)

SESNSP confirms that AMLO’s government registers more homicides than Peña Nieto

Previously, statistics from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) They had already shown that in the López Obrador Government there were more homicides than in the Peña Nieto administration.

From December 1, 2018 to October 31, 2023, the SESNSP registered 161,527 victims of intentional homicide, which is 17.65% more than the 137,286 intentional homicides during Peña Nieto’s six-year term.

SESNSP figures reveal that since December 1, 2018 until December 31, 2023during the López Obrador Government, accumulated 166,193 victims of intentional homicides, and 21% increase compared to the total number of intentional homicides under Peña Nieto.

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