After years of decline, Mexico's murder rate is heading back to peak drug war levels

Mexico's murder rate is getting significantly worse again, after a few years during which the killing had begun to fall off. According to official figures released this week, the number of murders in Mexico during the first half of this year was around 15 percent higher than in the same period of 2015. The 10,301 killed from January through June, an average of 57 per day, is still about 10 percent less than when murders reached a peak during 2011.
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