Drug Cartel-Related Murders Exceed 10,000 So Far This Year, According to a Mexican Newspaper Tally

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Drug Cartel-Related Murders Exceed 10,000 So Far This Year, According to a Mexican Newspaper Tally

10,514 to be exact. It could top 12,000 by the end of the year, there has been an average of 230 killings a week for the last 2 months Fox News Steve Harrigan who has been doing reports from Juarez the last few days calls it "Al Qaeda next door," which I thought was a pretty good description cnsnews Cartel-related murders in Mexico’s drug war have surpassed 10,000 so far this year, according to a tally kept by the Mexican newspaper Reforma. As of November 19, the newspaper’s Ejecutómetro (execution-meter) stood at 10,514 for 2010. With an estimated 230 killings a week in the last two months, the cartel-related murders for 2010 could reach 12,000 by the end of the year. That figure is about twice the overall number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, which currently stand at about 5,700 for the entire duration of both wars to date Chihuahua, the Mexican state that includes what is arguably one of the most violent cities in the world, Ciudad Juárez, continues to be the deadliest, with 2,912 executions so far this year The Reforma newspaper shows that since Felipe Calderón became president of Mexico in December 2006, there have been 24,534 killings attributed to drug cartel violence, a more conservative estimate than the Mexican government’s official estimate of 28,000. Read more at www.hapblog.com

 

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