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Mexico Says Drug War Death Toll Has Topped 47,000

HeadlineJan 12, 2012

The Mexican government is now saying that more than 47,000 people have been killed in the country since President Felipe Calderón declared a war on drug traffickers in 2006. Nearly 13,000 people died in the first nine months of 2010. Some analysts say the actual toll is considerably higher. The Mexican census agency has identified 67,000 homicides from 2007 through 2010, nearly double the government’s count of drug-related deaths for that period.

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