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Mexico Stops Publishing Data on Gun Deaths Linked to Organised Crime
16 August 2012
InSight Crime (Bogota)
The Mexican government will not continue to release statistics on the number of homicides related to organized crime, leading critics to accuse the administration of withholding the data for political reasons.
In an interview with Reforma, an official from Mexico's federal ministry of security said they would not publish data on Mexico's crime-related murders from before President Felipe Calderon leaves office on November 30.
Jaime Lopez Aranda, the head of the... (GunPolicy.org)