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Security & Strategic Review - February 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: US heroin demand keeps violence high in Guerrero
The number of intentional homicide cases in Guerrero has been falling steadily over the past three years, but the state’s rate per 100,000 inhabitants is still the highest in Mexico. This is largely the result of the violent contest between small drug-trafficking gangs for control of a commodity that has been finding a growing market in the US: heroin, for which production of the raw material, opium gum, has been expanding in a large part of the state.
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