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Security & Strategic Review - January 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Official kidnapping data under attack
Apart from the continuing debate over the official accounting of fatalities resulting from the turf wars between drug gangs and the government’s own anti-cartel drive, the federal authorities have been coming in for heavy criticism for publishing data on kidnapping that most private sources consider understated to the point of being almost meaningless.
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