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Mexico has reduced its daily homicide count by 41% over the past 18 months, owing to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s pioneering new strategy for confronting organized crime (www.project-syndicate.org)

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Kind of sounds weird when we count the homicide yearly here in Québec.

[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Sheinbaum took office in October of 2024, ~19 months ago. I think the change is being measured over the time since her government instituted the policy changes.