Security & Strategic Review June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

President Felipe Calderón has been insisting that the emphasis placed by media and politicians on the rising number of drug-war killings has created a distorted picture of the security situation across the country. He has recently been contrasting Mexico's overall intentional homicide rate with the much higher ones of other countries in the region. Statistical evidence from the country's hotspots does not reveal a single clear trend.