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Guanajuato state, Mexico: events and estimated deaths in April 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 20 eventsP of organized violence in Guanajuato state, Mexico in April 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 30P. The low estimate is 30 and the high estimate is 36P. UCDP counts 4P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for March 2026 was 39 eventsP.

The count for April 2025 was 20 events. The change from April 2025 to April 2026 is levelP. Among the 26 months with a report for Guanajuato state, Mexico, April 2026 has the 25th highest count of events. Guanajuato state, Mexico holds 9 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Mexico in April 2026. In April 2025, the share was 10 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Mexico, April 2026.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Mexico has each event.

Table 1. Guanajuato state, April 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (1 of 20 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
14 Apr 2026Villagrán municipality, Guanajuato stateActor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDPNon-state131313

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Guanajuato state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of April 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP7P22P
Jalisco Cartel New Generation13P8P
Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel13P8P

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Guanajuato state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202650P18PCandidate Events
August 202632P17PCandidate Events
July 202634P27PCandidate Events
June 202628P23PCandidate Events
May 202641P21PCandidate Events
April 202620P30PCandidate Events
March 202639P65PCandidate Events
February 202622P5PCandidate Events
January 202662P57PCandidate Events
December 20253728GED
November 20254522GED
October 202549244GED
September 20257888GED
August 20255376GED
July 20254728GED
June 20253130GED
May 20255445GED
April 20252018GED
March 20256578GED
February 20257474GED
January 202578761GED
December 20245374GED
November 20247080GED
October 202486127GED
September 20246177GED
August 202480115GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Guanajuato state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Guanajuato state, Mexico: events and estimated deaths in April 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/mexico/guanajuato-state/month/2026-04/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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