Months have gone by since the last of the grisly mass killings that have marked the conflict’s darkest moments.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

Cartels are still fighting each other, but they are no longer taunting the military and the police by doing it in such a blatantly public manner.  Drug-related homicides are stable (and alarmingly high) at 12,000 per year but less in the border cities and more in the northern interior.  The cartels are trying to avoid engaging the military, seeing that “spectacular acts of violence only bring more pressure to bear on them.”  

Tags: Mexico, narcotics, conflict.

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