During the internal elections, insecurity was one of the hottest topics. This afternoon, Nicolás Martinelli will present the official figures for the first half of the year.
The unsafety It is one of the issues that most concerns Uruguayans and also one of the main discussions that took place in the electoral campaign with the internal elections. In that context, this Monday afternoon the Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Martinelli, will provide official crime figures for the first half of the year.
The latest survey of Figure He assures that for 47% of the Uruguayan population, insecurity is the main problem of the country, while the latest events in unsafety They have ignited the electoral campaign of the internal elections between the different party leaders, dominating the political scene.
In this way, the Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Martinelliwill give a press conference this Monday afternoon with the official data of the National Observatory of Violence and Crime of the portfolio. The official will present the figures for homicides, thefts, robberies, domestic violence and cattle rustling and compare them with the previous two semesters.
What was the latest data?
At the beginning of April, Martinelli presented the report for the first quarter of the year and stated that crime “continued to decline” in Uruguay.
The homicides fell by 17.3%, robberies 24.3% and the thefts, 9.3%, during the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to the most recent figures from the Crime Observatory of the Ministry of the Interior.
According to official data, there were 81 homicides during the first three months of the year, compared to 98 in the same period in 2023; while thefts fell from 30,778 to 27,913, and robberies from 6,640 to 5,024. Domestic violence cases also had fewer complaints – which is the data that the Ministry uses as a source of measurement – in the year-on-year comparison: from 10,989 registered in the first quarter of 2023, they fell to 10,627.
Source: Ambito
