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STORY: :: October 10, 2024

Dressed in white, hundreds of people march through the streets of Mexico's Chilpancingo, chanting “No more violence.”

In the aftermath of the brutal murder of their mayor, Alejandro Arcos, the residents here say they’re fed up.

This demonstrator says the violence is pulling the life from the city.

“I think you only need to live the reality that all Chilpancingo citizens live every day to realize why the city starts to empty at seven and looks desolated, dark, and lifeless.”

:: Culiacan, Mexico

:: September 27, 2024

It's not the only place violence is erupting.

In Sinaloa's capital, an ongoing conflict between cartel factions has killed more than 230 people.

On the day Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, was inaugurated, soldiers killed six migrants in southern Chiapas state. The defense ministry said they mistook the migrants' vehicle for one used by organized crime.

And on Oct. 15, mayor Roman Ruiz Bohorquez, was stabbed to death at his home in the community of Candelaria Loxicha in Oaxaca state.

“It was sudden, we don’t know why this happened,” said this resident. “We had a mayor who helped everyone, he fixed the street.”

The two mayors are among the 1,247 homicide victims in the first two weeks of Sheinbaum's administration.

That’s according to pollster TResearch's analysis of government data.

Many doubt whether Sheinbaum will be able to tackle the epidemic of cartel-led violence that has wracked Mexico for over a decade.

She is pairing her mentor and former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador's more social approach with improved intelligence sharing, coordination among government organizations and a beefed-up National Guard.

:: October 8, 2024

SHEINBAUM: “We will reduce the number of high-impact crimes. We will because we have a strategy and we’ll implement it. We will pay more attention than what was given by the government of President Lopez Obrador to certain topics, and we still believe that security and peace are the result of justice.”

Critics argue that López Obrador's more passive approach allowed the cartels to strengthen and expand.

Almost 200,000 people were homicide victims during López Obrador's six-year term.

That’s an average of one every 15 minutes, and the highest rate under any president in modern Mexico, TResearch analysis showed.