War on drugs kills 47,500 in Mexico - Gayo Lues
The Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday that 47,515 drug-related killings had occurred from December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown against drug cartels, to September 2011.
The office said the death toll rose by 11 percent in the first nine months of 2011 when 12,903 people died, compared to 11,583 in the same period in 2010.
Also on Wednesday, two more decapitated bodies were found inside a burning SUV near the entrance to one of the capital Mexico City‘s most luxurious shopping malls at the heart of the Santa Fe district.
The Latin American country has been plagued with violence amid fighting between drug mafias over profitable methamphetamine trafficking routes and marijuana fields across western Mexico.
The government used to occasionally release the number of the people killed in drug-related violence, but it stopped the process a year ago when the death toll reached 35,000.
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source: Presstv.ir – American News
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