Mexico Violence Resource Project

Promoting nuanced analysis and creative insights

The Mexico Violence Resource Project provides information, analysis, research, and resources for understanding violence and organized crime in Mexico. This collaborative effort gives policymakers, journalists, and scholars the tools to develop deeper understandings and smarter solutions.

DATA

Regularly updated statistics and information related to violence, drug trafficking, and crime.

RESOURCES

Summaries of research and conclusions from leading scholars and analysts.

PERSPECTIVES

Key insights and opinions from our contributors, as well as interviews and commentary.

ABOUT

Our team's background, our objectives, how to become a part of our network.

Latest Perspectives

Cartels, Control, and Communicating the Reality of Tamaulipas

Few places are as central to the history of Mexico’s contemporary violence as Tamaulipas. It was in Tamaulipas where old-school drug...

Condor: An Unfinished Flight

In the mountains of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua, the memory of Operation Condor persists, almost fifty years later. This is its story.

Inside Mexico’s City Impunity

How might police reform address impunity? An examination of Mexico City’s “Unidades Criminalísticas de Proximidad” or UCPs.

"Sinaloa is not Guerrero": Illicit Production, Licit Agribusiness

How does opium gum extracted in the Sierra of Sinaloa makes its way to consumers in neighborhoods in the U.S.?

Upcoming

November, 2021

U.S. Training of Mexican Armed Forces and Law Enforcement

An interactive dashboard of more than 6000 trainings from 2000 to 2019, revealing how the U.S. increased tactical trainings despite increasing concerns over human rights abuses.

Special projects

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