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.
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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. |
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.
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| Sources: CDC / INEGI |
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.
