2.  Since 1980’s Columbian Drug Lords have used Mexico as trade route  Spike in killings connected to arrest of Osiel Cardenas  Corruption in local police, lack of fed support  Murder rates double between 2005-2010

3.  Drug- cartel related deaths decrease  Many leading mafiosi have been captured and killed. 12 out of 37 kingpins remain at large.  Mexico spends 5 billion pesos on security and social development  Drop in murders  There are more jobs, keeping people out of gangs.  They replaced the old written justice system and brought in oral trials, making trials faster

4.  Targeting cartels heads of contract-kills  Comparison 2011- 2012 current