Mexico is the most dangerous and violent country in the world without a regular war, according to the 2024 Conflict Index of the global initiative Armed Conflict Data and Location (ACLED, for its acronym in English), which maintains that the Mexican government has “the power but not the control” of the entire territory.
According to the index, the most dangerous and violent country in the world is Palestine, where Israeli attacks have caused genocide, and in second and third place are Myanmar and Syria, which in both cases face internal armed conflicts. Following these three nations at war, Mexico appears.
The ACLED initiative noted in the report accompanying its 2024 Conflict Index that Mexico is experiencing “a civil war of drug cartels” and maintained that the country is going through a period of “continuous violence” in which politically motivated crimes increased during this year’s electoral period.
The report indicated that this year in Mexico there were 8,110 deaths due to political violence.
The global NGO ranked Mexico as a more dangerous country than nations such as Ukraine, Yemen, Haiti and Sudan.
According to ACLED, “the governments of Myanmar, the new president of Mexico (Claudia Sheinbaum) and the coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are all in the abyss of ‘control versus power’, with drastic increases in violence rates and more violent groups, while the influence on how violence evolves and ends is elusive.”
In the organization’s index, Mexico appears as the seventh country in the world where conflicts caused the most deaths in 2024 and the second where civilians suffered the most damage.
Among the most violent and dangerous countries in Latin America are, after Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela, according to the index.
ACLED defines the Mexican situation as “extreme” and “consistently worrying,” as well as those of nine other nations in the world.
The agency, which has monitoring systems in all regions of the world, noted that in the last five years the levels of conflict have almost doubled globally, since in 2020 it recorded 104,371 conflict events, while this year almost 200,000.
This year alone, armed conflicts have produced “more than 233,000 deaths,” although this is “a conservative estimate.”
“This is largely due to the fact that during that period three very large conflicts began or resumed – Ukraine, Gaza and Myanmar –, to which was added the continued violence in many other countries with high rates of conflict – including Sudan, Mexico, Yemen and the countries of the Sahel – and that very few conflicts ended,” the report indicated.
In addition, “the exposure of civilians to violence, incidents of conflict and the number of armed groups participating in violence are proliferating.”
According to ACLED, there was a 25% increase in political violence events in 2024 compared to 2023.
Source: proceso
