Drug war mexico

Mexico, Before and After Calderon’s Drug War

1) Summary of the News Article An estimated of 50,000 deaths have occurred since President Felipe Calderón launched the effort against Mexico’s drug war in late 2006, when he took over office. This drug war has definitely taken a horrific toll considering all deaths occurred so far. But how much did Calderón’s declaration change the crime rate? And now that president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto is set to take over in December this year, how much is likely to change? According to Christopher Reynolds, a Los Angeles Times writer, in an article published by The Los Angeles Times newspaper on August 25, 2012, he states that “good statistics are often hard to come by in Mexico; authors Cory Molzahn, Viridiana Ríos and David A. Shirk have gathered a boatload of numbers, and they raise the idea that drug-related killings accelerated before Calderón declared war. As the report notes, the Mexican government counted 12,903 drug-war killings (a.k.a. organized-crime homicides) in the first nine months of 2011, which brought the official total to 47,515 since December. 1, 2006. If you add the 2,624 drug-related homicides reported by the Mexican daily Reform from October through December 2011, that makes an estimated 50,139 drug-war deaths in five years and one month (And there are all the killings of this year yet to be officially counted). In other words, there are rumors that drug-related killings accelerated before Calderón declared war; however, regardless of whether those killings were before or after Mexico’s declaration against drug related crimes, the important fact is that over 50,000 thousand people have been killed since 2006. The Mexican government claims that all these deaths do not include innocent civilians but, instead, include bad guys like drug dealers or anyone that is somehow involved with the world of crime. Analyzing this critically, this statement given by the Mexican government sort of