Crime In Mexico
Evaluations of 2016 Mexican violence continue to be released. The latest is from the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) which lists the Mexican Drug War as the world’s second-deadliest conflict, after the Syrian Civil War. This ranking has been disputed by the Mexican government. For the entire article, click, here. Article by Allan […]
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A Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal, A.C. (Citizen Council for Public Security and Penal Justice), whose president is Jose Antonio Ortega Sanchez, released a list of the world’s 50 cities with the highest homicide rates in 2016. In order to be on the list, the city must […]
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The consulting firm Verisk Maplecroft compiled a Crime Rate Index for calendar year 2016, and Mexico is ranked the third most dangerous country in the world. The list was released in December of 2016. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published March 20th, 2017, on Mexidata.info.
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A Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal, A.C. (Citizen Council for Public Security and Penal Justice) released a list of the world’s 50 cities with the highest homicide rates in 2015. In order to be on the list, the city must have at least 300,000 inhabitants. The ranking […]
In a new year, Mexican homicide statistics from the previous year are published. It’s a grisly business, examining statistics representing real people who were homicide victims. Hopefully, patterns can be found in these morbid statistics, knowledge of which could be used to reduce homicides. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published […]
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On July 11th, 2015, Mexican drug baron Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman escaped from prison in a mile-long tunnel specially constructed for his escape. The question is, where is Chapo now? With his vast wealth and extensive connections, Chapo could be anywhere. The DEA thinks Chapo is back in his home state of Sinaloa. And it […]
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My family and I recently returned from our annual summer visit to Mexico. We usually visit twice a year, at Christmastime and in the summer. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published August 3rd, 2015, on Mexidata.info.
I recently returned fron a trip to Mexico. and found some articles in the Mexican media which relate to the mass immigration of Mexicans to the United States. Years ago, it was the Mexican media which helped me to become a writer on immigration, when I saw how it was viewed from south of the […]
Just five days after the capture of Servando Gomez Martinez, the leader of southern Michoacan state’s Caballeros Templarios, Mexican authorities captured another big narco boss, Alejandro “Omar” Treviño Morales, known as Z-42, leader of the infamous Zetas cartel. Treviño was captured by Mexican federal police and Mexican Army soldiers on March 4th, 2015 in San Pedro […]
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Servando Gomez Martinez, also known as “La Tuta,” was captured by Mexican federal police on February 27th, 2015, in Michoacan’s capital city Morelia, with no shots being fired. Agents had been gathering intelligence on Gomez for months. Gomez was the leader of a cult-like drug cartel, based in Michoacan state in southern Mexico, called Los Caballeros Templarios […]
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