How Many Criminal Groups Are There in Mexico?
Channel: International Crisis Group
Date: 2020-07-16

The “war on drugs” has not smashed Mexican organised crime but broken it into smaller fragments that fight each other for turf. This has come at the cost of thousands of lives, with last year being the deadliest on record.

The sheer difficulty of counting the criminal groups underscores the scale of the government’s challenge in protecting the public.

Read Crisis Group report "Mexico’s Everyday War: Guerrero and the Trials of Peace": https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/mexico/80-mexicos-everyday-war-guerrero-and-trials-peace

And commentary "More than Cartels: Counting Mexico’s Crime Rings": https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/mexico/more-cartels-counting-mexicos-crime-rings


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