Yeah but the total death toll in Mexico isn't an accurate representation on what's happening in Mexico because the murders are never investigated, you really have to know or research/understand "narco" politics to get a more accurate estimation. Also, it's not a single "thing" that is happening in Mexico but series of events . To give you a clear understandin on how skewed the stastistics relating to organized crime in Mexico, I am going to brief you on the death toll and what happened on the 2007-2011 war between the Sinaloa Cartel and Juarez Cartel(the one with the most deaths). For a deep analyis of the whole thing, here is a good article from InsightCrime about the whole thing. http://www.insightcrime.org/juarez-war-s...inners-gang-war . Basically the Sinaloa Cartel's armed wing invaded because "El JL" the head of La Linea(Juarez Cartel) was well known to really cause trouble to both parties, from charging too much to pass drugs, impose a tax a personal tax on both Juarez Cartel/Sinaloa Cartel members operating in the city, over compensating the upper echelon of the Juarez Cartel and undercompensating the lower level members or parties, and more. He eventually caused the power structure to break and scatter, some members remained with the Juarez Cartel other joined the Sinaloa Cartel. El "JL" basically told "El Flaco"(and Chapo), a Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant and the guy responsible and behind drug trafficking for through the Juarez corridor to hit hit the road. War was declared and the Sinaloa Cartel's "Gente Nueva" or armed group came to Juarez and started to kill police officers(that were La Linea members) or threat them to join them or they were going to get killed. War was ensued, Sinaloa Cartel started to hire the 900 local street gangs as cannon fodder or foot soldiers in the upcoming war. Juarez used the Barrio Azteca street gang as cannon fodder or soldiers but unlike the Mexicles, Barrio Azteca had an hierchy/structure and was controlling the local distribution for the Juarez Cartel/La Linea. The Mexicles started to target the distribution sites, Barrio Azteca fought back and 10,000 people were killed in Juarez during 2007-2011. Most of dead were either Mexicles or Barrio Azteca gang members but about 80 Juarez Cartel/La Linea members were killed ,not sure how many Sinaloa Cartel members or enforcers were killed. About half of the 10,000 killed were disputes within the Barrio Azteca gangs because some Barrio Azteca shot callers were siding with the Sinaloa Cartel thus ensuing an internal war within Barrio Azteca.

Obviously not all of the 10,000 dead was a result of the war between the Sinaloa Cartel and Juarez Cartel. Juarez has always been a rough town and had always had about 400 or so murders per year.