Just four and a half months after the administration of the municipal mayor Ricardo Moreno Basteda began, the Mexican capital is facing a disturbing increase in blackmail, which indicates that there are no effective measures in the field of security and crime prevention by the current local government.
According to official figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), between January and May, 78 investigations of extortion in Toloca were opened, which places the municipality as the most affected by this crime throughout the state of Mexico, by focusing approximately 15 percent of all complaints submitted in the object.
This growth represents an increase of more than 20 percent compared to the last two months of the Juan Maccise Naime management, former Priist, and reveals the beginning of the disturbing management of Mourino Basteda.
The most disturbing, when compared to the trio headed by Juan Rudolfo Sanchez Gomez, extortion increased by almost 50 percent, reflecting the direction of a continuous deterioration in local security.
Although Toluca has already recorded extortion incidents in previous years, the current numbers indicate deepening the problem under the current administration, without overwhelming measures not yet that they contain the situation.
The consequences are and a rhetoric, and merchants have closed their businesses, and families have abandoned their homes for fear of revenge, and the displacement operations that reflect the climate of insecurity that permeates the streets of the municipality.
The extortion methods are increasingly varied: phone calls that mimic family emergency situations, kidnapping threats, deception of inconsistent prizes, intimidation with alleged information, and even impersonating the identity of criminal groups or self -defense.
In many cases, victims are pressed to make deposits, transportation operations or prepaid cards. Despite the seriousness of the situation, the Ricardo Moreno municipal government showed a disturbing negative and the lack of clear strategies to stop this criminal wave.
Special operations or visual protection campaigns have not been announced, leaving citizens in a state of continuous security vulnerability.
In the face of a crime that can be punished until life imprisonment in Mexico, the lack of firm leadership and effective coordination with the federal authorities and federal authorities not only questions the ability of the city council, but also exposes the peace of thousands of Toluqueños at risk.
The numbers are clear, and as long as specific measures are taken, Toloka will continue to climb in the statistics of insecurity, which leads to the Moreno Basteda administration to face a confidence crisis that leads him to be the worst government in the history of the Mexican capital.
