Drug use and seizures in the U.S.
on
Sep 25, 2012
More errors in the Mexican Mortality Database
on
Sep 12, 2012
Violence along Mexico's Southern Border and Central America
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Sep 7, 2012
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| Rates for Panama and Nicaragua are from 2009, all other countries 2010. Municipalities which are part of a metro area in Mexico are shown with the metro area homicide rate. |
Having just posted on violence along Mexico's northern border, I figured it's time to analyze what is happing south of Mexico where some countries have experienced sharp increases in homicides.
Homicides along the United States–Mexico border
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Sep 4, 2012
The drug war in Mexico has increased the homicide rate in several parts of the country, but one of the most affected regions has been those areas near the U.S. border.
Violence has generally stayed on the Mexican side of the border. The trend in
homicides for all U.S. counties at least 160 km from the Mexican border has been downward since the drug war started.
Keep in mind that violence in Mexican municipalities at least 160km from the border was lower in
2006, when the drug war started, than in 1999.
P.S. When referring to homicides in the US I included those deaths that were the result of legal interventions since in Mexico police/military interventions are usually counted as homicides.
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| Sources: CDC / INEGI. For Mexican municipalities the distance to the border was measured from the main locality of each municipality, for US counties the distance to the border was measured from the centroid. |
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| Sources: CDC / INEGI |
P.S. When referring to homicides in the US I included those deaths that were the result of legal interventions since in Mexico police/military interventions are usually counted as homicides.
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