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Drug violence in Mexico: data and analysis from 2001–2009

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  1. These figures from PGR/SEDENA were reported on January 5, 2010 and obtained by the Trans-Border Institute from the news agency Imagen del Golfo (www.imagendelgolfo.com.mx). According to this article, there were 560 killings in 2006, 3,537 in 2007, 5,903 in 2008, and 7,742 in 2009. The same report indicates that there were 195 females killed in 2008 and 425 in 2009; 535 police in 2008 and 470 in 2009; and 52 and 35 military personnel in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Meanwhile, a recent El Universal article reports the same figure for 2009, but different figures for all previous years: 1,573 in 2005, 2,221 in 2006, 2,673 in 2007, and 5,630 in 2008. Esther Sánchez, “Aumenta nivel de violencia del narco,” El Universal, January 1, 2010.

  2. “Un ejecutado cada hora durante 2009,” Milenio, January 2, 2010.

  3. Milenio, for example, reports nearly 700 cartel related killings in Baja California, a figure that appears to include virtually all homicides for the state.

  4. This could reflect a lack of access to complete information from official sources, as well different classification systems by official sources, and even erroneous reporting on the part of either the government or the media.

  5. These criteria were outlined for the Trans-Border Institute by a Reforma reporter who works closely with these data.

  6. Moloeznik, M. P. (2009). “Principales efectos de la militarización del combate al narcotráfico en México.” Renglones(61).

  7. In Mexico, a country of more than 100 million people, the odds of being killed in a drug-related homicide in 2009 were one in 16,328; almost three times less likely than being killed in an automobile accident in the United States (about one in 6,500). Bailey, Ronald. “Don’t Be Terrorized: You’re More Likely to Die of a Car Accident, Drowning, Fire, or Murder.” Reason.com (http://reason.com/archives/2006/08/11/dont-be-terrorized).

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Drug violence in Mexico: data and analysis from 2001–2009. Trends Organ Crim 13, 167–174 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-010-9096-7

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