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... and the officials don't have an incentive to diminish the stats?

They currently (and at the time the stats were last collected) have the exact opposite incentive.

Maybe from the top of the US administration, yes. But from the guys over the nearby river, with their "plata o plomo" billboards ...

Maybe I'm wrong. I'll simply observe officials have various incentives to tweak the numbers in either direction.