0.000002
20 May 2008
With the hoo-haw in the New York Times about a U.S. citizen being one of the latest bodies to turn up among the shake-out in the narcotics distribution business reorganization, something worth noting…
Drug violence killed more than 2,500 people in Mexico last year.
With the Mexican population at about 120,000,000 that’s a death rate of
2500/120,000,000 or 0.000002 per thousand.
This year, so far the attrition rate for narcotics export workers and associated trades is higher (1300 and counting), but overall, hardly enough to justify alarmist rhetoric about a “failed state.”
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