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Since December 2006, when Felipe Calderón took the oath of office as president of Mexico and launched a full-fledged response against organized crime, there has been a steady increase in the number of deaths related to organized crime-. If the current trend continues, by the end of Calderón’s six-year term in December 2012, the f igure will reach 66,000 deaths caused by organized crime. Moreover, the violence, initially highly concentrated in a handful of municipalities, has been spreading geographically, particularly since early 2010 when o rganizedcrime- related violence became endemic throughout the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo León as well as in south-central Mexico.
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Guerrero, E. (2012). Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico, 2007–2010. In: Philip, G., Berruecos, S. (eds) Mexico’s Struggle for Public Security. Studies of The Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034052_3
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