• SURGE: The number of multi-homicide incidents linked to organized crime in Mexico during the third quarter of 2019 rose to 149 and included 663 victims, slightly higher than in the previous quarter, according to Reforma newspaper’s tally of murders.
• INCIDENTS: Defined as a murder with three or more victims, Mexico saw several violent multi-homicides between August and October including the attack on a bar in the Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos where 28 people died and the execution of 19 people in the western city of Uruapan.
• PREVIOUS QUARTER: Earlier in the second quarter of 2019, the number of multi-homicide incidents had tallied a total of 145 cases with 602 victims; in the largest case this year, 30 people were found dead in the western state of Jalisco in May.
• VIOLENT YEAR: The pace of murders in Mexico during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador first year in office is on pace to set a new record with more than 29,600 in 2019 -per Mexico’s Public Security System- that could topple the 36,685 record of 2018.
