Collateral Damage: Crunching numbers in Mexico's drug conflict

A look at the death toll numbers just released by the Mexican government.

BBC News - Crunching numbers in Mexico's drug conflict: "The launch this week of a comprehensive official database of drug-related killings around Mexico provides a new insight into the complexity of the conflict with criminal groups that traffic drugs into the United States. ...

Many in Mexico have therefore welcomed the publication of a unified set of data that for the first time includes not only fallen gang members, but also police, soldiers and innocent civilians killed in the fight against the cartels.

However, that positive development has been overshadowed by the grim scenario that the figures depict - and some complain that they only show one, even if the most tragic, aspect of the conflict." Jan. 14, 2011