#crime - Mexico saw 5,000 violent homicides during 2008.Violence in early December 2008 resulted in 35 violent deaths in 24 hours, which took the number of deaths related to organized crime to more than five thousand. The violent murder rate in Mexico currently exceeds one death per hour.
From 22 October to 2 December 2008, ninety law enforcement persons have been murdered in Mexico. There have now been 7,882 assassinations linked to organized crime since President Calderon took office in December 2006.
Source: Right Side News
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