WNU #1073: Mexican Drug War Displaces 230,000

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1073, March 27, 2011

1. Mexico: 230,000 Are Displaced by the “Drug War”
2. Colombia: Judicial Workers Strike After Judge’s Murder
3. Honduras: Journalists Attacked in Teachers’ Strike
4. Haiti: Earthquake Victims Remain Homeless
5. Links to alternative sources on: Latin America, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti

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*1. Mexico: 230,000 Are Displaced by the “Drug War”
Some 115,000 Mexicans fled their homes last year because of drug-related crime, according to a report released on Mar. 23 by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The Geneva-based group, which was established by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in 1998 at the United Nations’ request, estimated that the total number of people displaced by drug violence in Mexico since 2007 has reached about 230,000. Some 35,000 people have died in fighting among drug gangs and between the gangs and the authorities in the four years since President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa militarized the fight against drug traffickers shortly after taking office in December 2006. [...]

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