We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large … candidate’s party barely lost the elections. Challenger cartels in the drug market leapfrog incumbent drug cartels when entering …

emergency opens the possibility of wrestling Mexico’s opium-growing regions from the control of Mexico’s Drug Trafficking …For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation …). Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two poppy-producing regions of Mexico - one in the State of Nayarit, one in the State of …

) create scarcity and increase drug-related violence in Mexico. In accordance with our model, the effect of cocaine scarcity on …Using the case of the cocaine trade in Mexico as a relevant and salient example, this paper shows that scarcity leads … increasing violence. We test our model and the proposed channel using data for the cocaine trade in Mexico. We found that …

cocaine seizures in Colombia—Mexico’s main supplier of cocaine— increases violence in Mexico. The effects are larger in … Colombia could account for 10%-14% of the increase in violence in Mexico and 25% of the differential increase of violence in … the north of Mexico relative to the rest of the country …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …