Organised crime
AMLO’s New Plan for Security in Mexico
: A Promise of Change?
April 3, 2019
Dylan Ramshaw
Since 2006, the drug war has left more than 200,000 dead, 40,000 disappeared, and with approximately 26,000 unidentified corpses and over 1,100 mass graves. The violence has also directly affected local politicians, journalists and women. In 2012, the drug war death toll was around 15,000, but peaked in 2018 with more than 33,000 murders, up by 15% from 2017. On 1 Jul 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO as he is known in…