Weekly Report - 4 January 2007

MEXICO: Drug gang murders. The committee of public security in the lower chamber reported that 9,000 people had been killed by the drug gangs in President Vicente Fox Quesada's term of office (December 2000 to November 2006). In calendar 2006 at least 2,221 people were killed by organised crime. The number of people killed rose each year under Fox: 1,080 in 2001; 1,230 in 2002; 1,290 in 2003; 1,304 in 2004 and then 1,776 in 2005. Half of the murders by drug gangs were in Michoacán and about a third were in Sinaloa. The third most murderous state is Tamaulipas, in the northeast. 

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