The geography of Mexico’s drug trade: an index page

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The geography of Mexico’s drug trade: an index page

The Basics

• The geography of drug trafficking in Mexico   (Apr 2010)
• The background to Mexico’s fight against drug cartels (Apr 2010) – Stratfor
• Mexico’s export trade in drugs  (Apr 2010) – from Stratfor
• Mexico’s national interests in the fight against drugs  (May 2010) – Stratfor
• The economic benefits to Mexico of the drugs trade  (May 2010) – from Stratfor
• The changing geography of drug trafficking routes in Mexico (Feb 2011)
• Mexico’s drug cartels’ shifting areas of operation, a 2012 update (Feb 2012)
• Mexico’s crime statistics: fishing for the facts (Feb 2012)
• Mexico’s drug trade: new cartels involved in turf wars (Feb 2013)
• Mexico’s drug cartels and their areas of operation, a 2014 update (Feb 2014)

• The economic benefits to Mexico of the drugs trade (May 2010)
• Ciudad Juárez faces economic fallout from the drugs war effects  (Jan 2011)
• Drug gangs diversify their business activities (Jan 2011)
• More impacts of Mexico’s war against drug cartels (May 2011)
• Annual economic impact of violence still over two hundred billion dollars  (Apr 2015)
• Drug cartels taking over the tortilla industry in Guerrero (Mar 2016)

Drug War Violence and Crime

• The pattern of homicides in Mexico in 2012 (Aug 2013)
• Has the homicide rate in Mexico begun to fall? (Aug 2013)
• 2013 Mexico Peace Index: Mexico becoming more peaceful (Dec 2013)
• The pattern of violent crimes in Mexico in 2013 (Feb 2014)
• The abduction and presumed murder of 43 students in the state of Guerrero (Nov 2014)
• Geographic trends in Mexico’s drug violence (Feb 2011)
• Recent geographic trends in Mexico’s drug violence (Feb 2012)
• Mexican attitudes on the drug war, violence and crime (Jul 2012)
• Mexico City has largely escaped drug violence (Mar 2012)
• Drug war death trends in areas of interest to foreign tourists and retirees (Mar 2012)
• Which Mexican communities have the highest drug war death rates? (Feb 2012)
• Drug war deaths in Mexico’s biggest cities (Feb 2012)
• The geography of drugs-related deaths and violence in Chihuahua state(Apr 2011)
• Drug-related homicides concentrated in eight states (Jan 2012)
• Is drug war violence concentrated in Mexico’s largest cities? (Feb 2011)
• The rates of drug war deaths vary enormously in Mexico’s states (Jan 2011)
• Drug violence: is it safe to travel to Mexico? (Jul 2011)
• Mexican drug traffickers expand their influence to Central America (Jan 2011)
• Are communities with foreigners affected by the war against drugs? (Feb 2011)
• Deaths from war on drugs have increased rapidly since 2006 (Jan 2011)
• Analysis of drug violence in Mexico from the Trans-Border Institute (Mar 2011)
• The diffusion of violence in Mexico since the early 1980s  (Nov 2011)
• Are homicide rates in Mexico increasing? Perhaps, but…  (Aug 2011)
• Round-up of recent developments in Mexico’s Drug War  (Jul 2011)
• Believe it or not, homicide rates in Mexico have declined since 1997 (Sep 2010)

Drug Money

• How does money laundering work, and what is being done about it? (Mar 2012)
• How much drugs money is laundered in Mexico each year?  (Apr 2012)
• The finances of Mexico’s Knights Templar drugs cartel (Feb 2014)

Other

• The nondescript city of Zitácuaro, Michoacán ~ drugs war impacts  (Nov 2010)
• Purity of illicit drugs declines with distance from the Mexico-USA border  (Mar 2011)
• How might the USA adjust to “narco-refugees” from Mexico? (Jan 2012)
• Drug war impacts include child arrests, border tunnels and stressed zoos (Feb 2012)
• Threats to the traditional Tarahumara way of life, part two (Sep 2012)
• Using Google to map areas influenced by drug cartel activity (Nov 2012)
• How a migration channel from Mexico explains Denver’s heroin delivery system (May 2015)
• Ground-breaking mapping of Mexico’s drug war  (Jul 2015)
• The spheres of influence of Mexican cartels in the USA (May 2016)

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