Analysis of Mexico's Narco-War Network (2007-2011).

ABSTRACT: Since December 2006, more than a thousand cities in México have suffered the effects of the war between several drug cartels, amongst themselves, as well as with Mexican armed forces. Sources are not in agreement about the number of casualties of this war, with reports varying from 30 to 100 thousand dead; the economic and social ravages are impossible to quantify. In this work we analyze the official report of casualties in terms of the location and the date of occurrence of the homicides. We show how the violence, as reflected by the number of casualties, has increased over time and spread across the country. Next, based on the correlations between cities in the changes of the monthly number of casualties attributed to organized crime, we construct a narco-war network where nodes are the

SUBMITTER: Espinal-Enriquez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4436224 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature