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Jul 15, 2024 · In recent years, tens of thousands of people have died due to fighting between drug cartels in Mexico. The chart uses data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program to show the country's deaths from “non-state conflicts” over the last thirty years.
Feb 10, 2023 · Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 348,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 24,000 criminal arrests, with more than 22,000 felony charges reported. In the fight against fentanyl, DPS has seized over 361 million lethal doses of fentanyl during this border mission.
May 11, 2022 · According to homicide figures from Mexico’s Interior Ministry, as of March 12, an average of 112 people have been killed every day. Last year, the daily figure was 120, while in 2020, in the...
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Oct 9, 2024 · Mexico faces a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left over thirty-thousand people dead each year since 2018. Gangs and drug cartels largely...
Sep 21, 2023 · Organised criminal groups in Mexico employ up to 185,000 people and draw in hundreds of new recruits every week, new research estimates, underscoring the difficulty of dismantling the cartels...
Aug 2, 2023 · Kevin Krause, criminal courts reporter for the Dallas Morning News, spoke with the Standard about how guns from Texas are ending up in Mexico, and how new measures hope to curb some of the weapons trafficking enabling cartel violence.
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Major cartel fragmentation has led to increasingly adaptable, agile, and competitively violent criminal organizations. The geographical expansion of cartels has led to greater territorial contestation over drug plazas, trafficking routes, and illicit markets.
