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Security & Strategic Review - February 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Back to counting the drug-war dead
The new government has come up with a new set of statistics on deaths linked to the turf wars between drug trafficking organisations and associated criminal gangs. This is a practice its predecessors had discontinued and which seems to contradict the new government’s declared policy of focusing on violent crime in general. The figures, unsurprisingly, show a decline in these deaths since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office.
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- REGION: The most violent cities
- COLOMBIA: Surge of fighting, but negotiations continue
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- CHILE: Judiciary balks at misuse of the courts
- BRAZIL: Local gang led Santa Catarina waves of violence
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