The number of murders in Mexico exploded in 2018 by 33% as the narco-state broke its all-time record for the number of murders in a year for the second year in a row.
“Investigators opened to 33,341 murder probes compared with the previous year’s record of 25,036, according to information from the Interior Ministry published on Sunday,” Reuters reported. “Mexico has struggled with years of violence as the government has battled brutal drug cartels, often by taking out their leaders. That has resulted in fragmentation of gangs and increasingly vicious internecine fighting.”
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