Mexico Drug War Fast Facts CNN 1 hr ago © Provided by CNN
Here s a look at the Mexican Drug War. The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006. At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for control of territory.
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Enrique Peña Nieto, who was president from 2012 to 2018, continued the fight started by President Felipe Calderon against the cartels and drug-related violence. A huge victory for his administration was the 2014 arrest of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, the boss of one of Mexico s most powerful drug trafficking operations, the Sinaloa cartel.
According to a July 2020 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, about 125,000-150,000 homicides were organized crime-related from 2006 to 2018.
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