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Jul 29, 2022 · This week: Leaked data show that 2022 is already the worst year on record for deaths of migrants on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Mayors’ complaints indicate that Texas and Arizona governors’ steady flow of migrants bused to Washington, D.C. has begun to strain local services.
Sep 21, 2022 · Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday directed the Department of Public Safety to redouble its efforts combating Mexican drug cartels, which he blamed for transporting millions of doses of the opioid...
- The Enemy Within
- A Brief History of The Mexican Drug War
- AMLO and The Narcos
- Another Year at War
The ability of Mexico’s cartels to maintain a brutal level of violence against rivals, law enforcement and anyone else who gets in the way has few international comparisons. However, Vanda Felbab-Brown, an expert in international criminal violence at the US-based Brookings Institute, did venture one. ‘Over the last 15 years, the operational tempo o...
The 2,000 mile border which separates Mexico and the US is simultaneously the biggest boundary and the biggest opportunity in the global drug trade. Early traffickers who knew how to transport cargo across this line on the map became a crucial part of the network transporting drugs from South America into their primary market. For 70 years, Mexican...
Andrés Manuel López Obrador – commonly known by his initials – swept to power on a wave of economic populism in 2018, promising to end the drug war. To his supporters, he is a charismatic reformer in touch with the people. To his critics, he is Mexico’s answer to Trump, a blossoming autocrat who tells people what they want to hear and hoards power....
In the face of this conflicted response, the main inter-cartel war continues and countless local conflicts play out around the country. There can be no ‘peace talks’ with criminal groups – so who can stop the killing? Felbab Brown said: ‘AMLO has a preference that the criminal groups will sort it out among themselves but they don’t have the capacit...
Oct 10, 2022 · CURRENT STATE. August of 2022 saw a significant increase in cartel-related violence across multiple areas of Mexico, including in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Guanajuato, and Guadalajara. Overnight on 09 August, violence erupted in Guadalajara and Guanajuato after the arrest of high-ranking CJNG member "El Doble R" on 09 August.
May 11, 2022 · The Mexican army has a fatality rate of three, meaning three deaths for every injured civilian. This is almost as high as in the Vietnam War, when four people were injured for every death....
- Elena Reina
Mar 14, 2022 · CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — For at least three hours early Monday, the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, just across from Laredo, Texas, was paralyzed by a ferocious shootout between alleged...
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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.
