The war against organized crime last year caused 15,273 deaths in Mexico, more than double those recorded in 2009 and three times in 2008. The brutal figure is the result of informal counts, but the result of painstaking work done by the government of Felipe Calderón with a select group of independent experts.Despite the figures, the President wanted to emphasize today that the fight started after coming to power in late 2006 "is beginning to yield some results": 19 of the 37 top leaders of drug trafficking have been arrested or directly killed since March 2009, and the amount of confiscated drugs and weapons is increasing.
"Over the past four years," said Calderon, "has been removed from the drug market enough so that each young Mexican boy, aged between 15 and 30, had more than 1,600 doses." From time to time, in cities across the country, the president convenes a handful of representatives of civil society under the rubric of the Security Dialogue, to hear their opinions and complaints about the country's march.
Today's meeting was held in Mexico City and as a novelty, there was the announcement that from now on, "in an unprecedented exercise in transparency, any citizen can access the website of the presidency the numbers of homicides related to organized crime. So far, the data relied on informal counts that were barely making major Mexican newspapers.
The demonstration that reliable data are offered today is that, far from making up the results, the Calderón brings to the table a reality even more stark than that announced the day. While, according to Reforma, the number of deaths was 11,583 or, Goals, 12,658, the official figure rises to 15,273 ...
The announcement of the Homicide Database was performed by Alejandro Poire, who is the spokesman of the Government of Mexico to the affairs of Public Safety. According Poiré reading, despite the strength of the figures, there is reason for hope: "The number of homicides decreased by 10% in the last quarter of 2010 after five quarters of growth." The senior official also stressed that violence is not widespread, but concentrated in certain states: "50% of all homicides linked to organized crime is concentrated in just three states: Chihuahua (30%) Sinaloa (12%) and Tamaulipas (8%).
" During today's meeting, Calderon said that to win against organized crime, the government needs the "powerful tool" of civil society. A civil society began to revolt against the continuing climate of violence and the negative impact it is having on the image of Mexico. "It has been said," the expert Eduardo Guerrero argued in a recent study published in Nexus, "Mexico and organized crime drew from the previous administration.
This is only partially true: from 2001 to 2007 the number of killings linked to organized crime moved in a relatively small range: between 1,000 and 2,300 executions so. By contrast, between 2008 and 2010 recorded violence increased dramatically: 5,207 executions in 2008, 6,587 in 2009 and perhaps some 11,800 in 2010 ...
" . In the end there were 11,800, but 15,273. And, they look for where you look, 15,273 deaths a year are many dead.
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