92,000 Dead In Mexico`s War On The Drug Cartels -- Express.co.uk
THE horrific cost of Mexico’s six-year war on drugs has been starkly highlighted by a civil rights group that says the official 72,000 death toll may be wildly underestimating the scale of the slaughter.
It has published the grim statistic that 20,851 more victims have simply disappeared since the government declared war on the drug cartels.
It believes many of the missing women and children may still be alive, kidnapped by the cartels from remote villages and put to use as sex slaves.
The missing include 138 soldiers, 1,300 police officers and 58 journalists known to have been assassinated by cartel hitmen.
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My Comment: While much of the bloodshed for the past few years has decreased, the sad fact is that the bloodshed is still continuing at a horrific rate, and the authorities are nowhere near in being able to stop it. As to the number of 92,000 .... who knows if even this is accurate .... but what is known is that tens of thousands have been murdered, even more have fled the communities that they have always lived in, and the numbers of the disappear keep on rising.
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Most of the disappeared are probably in america with the other 50% of Mexico's population
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