Violence in Mexico has been on the rise for decades, fuelled in part by a flow of illegal firearms from the United States.
Much of the blame recently has fallen on Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who was elected on a platform of scaling back violent crime.
Many worry the worsening security crisis could set a new record for violence by the end of 2020.
Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo reports.

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