Number of deaths per year since Mexico's drug war started in 2006. Figure for 2011 is an estimate. Chart by Reforma.
Mexico Government Sought To Withhold Drug War Death Statistics -- Daily Mail
Official records show both the administration and the attorney general's office late last year refused formal requests for updated statistics. Under pressure, partial figures for 2011 have been released.
Reporting from Mexico City — Six months before a presidential election that his party is widely expected to lose, President Felipe Calderon is on the defensive about the government's blood-soaked drug war, with new revelations that it sought to conceal death toll statistics from the public.
By unofficial count, at least 50,000 people are believed to have been killed since Calderon deployed the military in the first days of his presidency in December 2006.
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More News On The Death Toll In Mexico's Drug Cartel Wars
Mexico Updates Death Toll in Drug War to 47,515, but Critics Dispute the Data -- New York Times
Mexican drug cartel crackdown has cost 47,000 lives in 5 years -- AP
Drug-Related Violence Soars in Mexico -- Wall Street Journal
2011 drug violence kills nearly 13,000 in Mexico, new figures show -- CNN
Mexico saw 'smaller jump in drug murders in 2011' -- BBC
Mexico drug death toll rising again in 2011 -- AFP
Bloodiest time yet in Mexico’s war on drugs -- Financial Times
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