SkiftStats: How Mexico's murder rate compares with the rest of the hemisphere
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For comparison with a few U.S. cities: New Orleans was 58 per 100,000 in 2011 and Chicago is 19 per 100,000 this year.
Earlier this year, the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego released "Drug Violence in Mexico," a report by the institute's Cory Molzahn, Viridiana Rios and David A. Shirk. Looking for broader perspective on the estimated 50,000 drug-war killings in Mexico since December 2006, the researchers compared Mexico'
