Weekly Report - 02 August 2012 (WR-12-30)

The number of murders linked to organised crime is down. Local commentators are speculating that the lull in the violence in June can be attributed to the elections on 1 July as drug-trafficking organisations (DTOs) avidly followed the security proposals of the leading candidates in the presidential contest and the future composition of congress to gauge the political will for waging a war on organised crime for the next sexenio. This is a moot point, but what is clear is that unless there is a spike over the remaining five months of the year, the number of murders in 2012 tied to organised crime will be the lowest since 2009.

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