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The Mexican drug war ... more than 15,000 people died in suspected drug cartel attacks ... The governors of Arizona and Texas have asked the federal government ...
How did drug war relations reach such a low? ... Texas, on June 15, 2021. (CBP) ... In 2021, 106,000 people died of opioid overdoses in the U.S., more than 70,000 of them largely from fentanyl ...
Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [1] [2] A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [3] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 ...
May 20 – In Nuevo Laredo, directly across the border from Laredo, Texas, 31 people were killed in a 24-hour span. [213] In addition, more than 40 people were injured, and 196 drug cartel gunmen were detained. [214] May 27 – In Ruiz, Nayarit, a convoy from the Los Zetas ambushed and killed 29 gunmen of the Sinaloa Cartel. [215]
Between 1999 and 2002, total drug overdose deaths eclipsed the number of lives lost by the U.S. in the Vietnam War, which was a staggering 47,000. We now lose that many Americans to drug overdoses ...
For the first time in many years, the Mexican State was limited in its actions—and even surpassed—by the criminal organizations. [11] The Sinaloa Cartel stood to its firm intention to become the "hegemonic drug trafficking organization in Mexico." [12] And to do so, it had to control the cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. Back in the ...
Academic Oswaldo Zavala has pushed back at the notion that Mexico's drug cartels are all-powerful, arguing that they could not exist without state support.
Human Rights Watch found that more than two-thirds of police chases in Texas occurred in OLS counties, which contained 13% of the state population. According to HRW, 74 people have died and 189 were injured as a result of these chases, resulting in a vehicle pursuit death rate eight times as high as the national rate.