Mexico
The first month of the new year ended with 904 drug-related murders in Mexico, which makes January 2010 the deadliest month since December 2006. The last week of the month was characterized by an abnormally high number of beheadings, 12, which took place throughout the country.
Chihuahua has been the most violent state in Mexico for more than two years, and in January 2010 it accounted for more than one-third of all the drug-related deaths during the month with 327, including the deaths of 16 individuals (many of them teenagers) at a high school house party in Ciudad Juarez that was a case of mistaken identity and location.
Sinaloa state, in 2009 had less than 100 drug-related deaths in any given month, but that changed in January 2010, with 169 drug-related murders in the state.
Mexico - a country to be proud of. A government unable to protect its citizens.
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