Homicides and Trafficking Routes

Sources

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• Drug War-Related Homicides: Dec 2006-Dec 2010: Base de datos de fallecimientos ocurridos por presunta rivalidad delincuencial and for 2011 PGR
• Total Homicides: Dirección General de Información en Salud (DGIS). Base de datos de defunciones 1998-2010: Sistema Nacional de Información en Salud (SINAIS). [México]: Secretaría de Salud [Accessed 2011-01-20] INEGI
• Military Operation Dates: Segundo Informe de Labores, Secretaría de Seguridad Pública
• Coordinates of Municipalities: Catálogos de municipios y localidades
• Metro Areas: Delimitación de las zonas metropolitanas de México 2005, INEGI
• Population estimates based on historical data by CONAPO/COLMEX and the 2010 Census: Source
• Drug lab location data from various newspapers: Spreadsheet
• Mariguana and opium poppy eradication data from: El mapa del cultivo de drogas en México, by Carlos Resa Nestares
• Best routes to reach the U.S. border from the municipalities with the highest drug plant eradication and drug lab density made with Google Directions
• For the importance of trafficking networks read: Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War by Melissa Dell
• For the importance of cartel leader arrests read: Security, drugs, and violence in mexico: a survey, by Eduardo Guerrero-Gutiérrez
• For the importance of the expiration of the assault weapon ban read: Cross-border spillover: US Gun Law and violence in Mexico by Dube, A., Dube, O. and Garcia-Ponce, O. and my blog post

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Total homicides for 2010 have been adjusted by about 3% to account for under-counting because of the cutoff date for registering homicides in the INEGI database

Both total homicides and drug war-related homicides are shown using the same color scale for ease of comparison

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