Abstract
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.KeywordsFederal GovernmentOrganize CrimeSecurity PolicyRegional CartelDrug TraffickingThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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