Drug Cartel-Related Murders Exceed10,000 for Year So Far, According to a Mexican Newspaper Tally

Cybercast News Service ^ | 12/2/10 | Edwin Mora

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) - Cartel-related murders in Mexico’s drug war have surpassed 10,000 so far this year, according to a tally kept by the Mexican newspaper Reforma.

As of November 19, the newspaper’s Ejecutómetro (execution-meter) stood at 10,514 for 2010. With an estimated 230 killings a week in the last two months, the cartel-related murders for 2010 could reach 12,000 by the end of the year.

That figure is about twice the overall number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, which currently stand at about 5,700 for 2010, as reported by CNSNews.com.

The Reforma newspaper shows that since Felipe Calderón became president of Mexico in December 2006, there have been 24,534 killings attributed to drug cartel violence, a more conservative estimate than the Mexican government’s official estimate of 28,000.

[bkepley]

Seems like you’d run out of bad guys at some point.

[chickadee]

Reforma’s tally includes the murders of police officers, members of the military, and people under 18 years of age.

From this carefully worded snippet, I am going to presume that the majority of the killings are among the gangs. If the gangs want to kill each other, the police should let them.

[moodyskeptic]

Here’s a good idea: allow millions of these morons into America and give them free citizenship!

[Rinnwald]

We don’t have 5,700 fatalities in Afghanistan/Iraq “for 2010”. That sounds like the total number since the wars began.

[JohnKinAK]

When will they start recognizing this for what it is..........a Civil War. When this happened last in Mexico (100 years ago) somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the Mexican population perished.

[tumblindice]

It’s like having the Manson family as next door neighbors.

[Spok]

“Here’s a good idea: allow millions of these morons into America and give them free citizenship!”

Or just get them registered to vote; citizenship be damned!!

[ari-freedom]

don’t forget food stamps and free tuition for their kids!

[PATRIOT1876]

*don’t forget food stamps and free tuition for their kids!*

Let’s give them new Escalades, 5 bedroom houses, and an unearned salary that’s 3 times what a legal American worker gets paid!
Also, diplomatic immunity for any other crimes they may commit….oops, I forgot, judges already do that for them….

[TexasRepublic]

“When this happened last in Mexico (100 years ago) somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the Mexican population perished.”

I once read somewhere a third of the population perished. You can still see buildings pocked by bullet holes.

[JohnKinAK]

I once read somewhere a third of the population perished. You can still see buildings pocked by bullet holes.
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1/3 wouldn’t suprise me then and won’t if it happens now.