I cant tell if this is murders from the drug war, or total murders or what...seems low to me for the whole country of Mexico.
{”I cant tell if this is murders from the drug war, or total murders or what...seems low to me for the whole country of Mexico.”
Yes, it’s not very clear on what the article is referring to, is it?
There were over 17,000 murders in the United States in 2006. Now, our population is about 3 times larger than Mexico’s. Adjusted for that, it would be the equivlanet of having only 3,000 murders per year in the US, or about 5.5 times per year than what we have here.
Sounds a bit suspect to me, particularly given the proclivity to violence you see in a lot of Mexican populations here.
Drug-related killings in 2008.