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[Translation] The Military and the Homicide Rate in Mexico: A Meditation

by David Sasaki | Jun 3, 2011 | English

What follows is my translation of José Merino’s article for this month’s Nexos magazine. With clearly presented statistical analysis, he shows that the deployment of the Mexican military in the so-called “War on Drugs” has led to a sustained...

Counting the Dead and then Making Coffee

by David Sasaki | Feb 23, 2011 | English

Frontera List is not the most merry of mailing lists. It is administered by New Mexico State University reference librarian Molly Molloy, and aims to facilitate discussion around the violence in Ciudad Juarez that goes beyond the usual daily death count. Still, the...

Citizen Journalism and Drug Trafficking in Mexico

by David Sasaki | Sep 20, 2010 | English

My feelings about the coverage of organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico are many, and they are complicated. I am disappointed by the focus on violence — rather than the causes of that violence — by the Mexican media. But I am far more bothered by...