According to a new study, Mexican cartels are Mexico’s fifth-largest employer. You needn't wonder how they are getting so rich. Just look at the border, our increased trafficking, and the drug trade in this country. Researchers created a mathematical model using homicide, missing persons, and i
An investigation published in ‘Science’ estimates the cartels contain around 175,000 people and recruit some 350 new members every week to cover losses from violence and imprisonment
Not through courts and not through prisons. The only way to reduce violence in Mexico is to cut off recruitment. Increasing incapacitation instead leads to both more homicides and cartel members, researcher Rafael Prieto-Curiel from the Complexity Science Hub and colleagues show in a study in Science.