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Mexico's war on drugs: five years on

Five years after its president declared a war on Mexico’s drug traffickers, a Guardian series assesses the scale of carnage that on average kills someone every hour
  • Houstin is the largest single source of weapons shipped to the drug cartels

    The US gun smugglers recruited by one of Mexico's most brutal cartels

  • Mexico drug wars: 'the majority of the weapons used by the cartels are coming from the US' - video

  • How Mexico's drug cartels profit from flow of guns across the border

  • Tape used to cordon off a crime scene lies surrounded by blood in Ciudad Juarez

    Mexico's drug wars: mystery surrounds how many are dying, and who

  • Marino Casiano

    Mexico's war on drugs blights resort of Acapulco

    Five years after its president declared a war on Mexico's drug traffickers, a two-day Guardian series of articles and interactives assesses the scale of carnage that on average kills someone every hour. In this first piece, we look at Acapulco, the tourist haunt now haunted by fear, death and countless acts of brutality
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