A record 29,000 Mexicans were murdered last year – can soldiers stop the bloodshed?
- Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
Mexico’s war on drugs has left 234,966 people dead in the last 11 years. In 2017 alone, the country saw some 29,000 murders, the highest annual tally since such record-keeping began in 1997.
For years, incensed Mexicans have demanded that President Enrique Peña Nieto – now in the final stretch of his six-year term – take...
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