Shifting Sands: Mexico’s Changing Drug War -- The Economist
The drug war’s fifth year throws up new trends, for better and worse.
FIVE years ago next week, Felipe Calderón took office as Mexico’s president and launched a crackdown against organised crime. Since then there has been a horrible predictability about the country’s drug war: each year the number of deaths has risen, most of them concentrated in a handful of cities. But this year both those tendencies look as if they have started to change. The annual death toll seems to have plateaued at around 12,000. Hotspots have cooled, only for violence to invade places previously considered safe.
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My Comment: That is a lot of drug related murders for this year.
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