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organized crime, nor drug trafficking have improved. Intentional homicides have had
significant spikes in 2011 and 2012 and recently show a rising trend again. Added to this, the

social costs of violence amount to more than 120 thousand deaths, 280 thousand displaced,

and between 8 and 25 thousand disappeared. [...] The capture of leaders has not resulted in

the automatic deactivation or weakening of criminal organizations. On the contrary, some
cartels have been fragmented as a result of the death or capture of their leader, resulting in

an increase in the violence motivated by the war for the control of plazas and transfer routes.

At the beginning of Felipe Calderón's six years there were four major criminal organizations
in the country (the Sinaloa cartel, the Juarez cartel, the Gulf cartel and the Michoacana

family).

Currently, the figure has risen to nine major cartels (New Generation Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel,

Los Zetas, Gulf Cartel, Templar Knights, the Michoacana Family, Beltrán Leyva Cartel,

Juarez Cartel, and the Arellano Felix Cartel) and another series of local minor groups that are
mainly dedicated to crimes such as kidnapping, extortion and robbery. Not only it is

observed that the criminal activity of these organizations has increased and diversified, but

that their penetration in the national territory is increasingly deeper and their dispersion has
not been controlled.

The continuity of a strategy marked by failure imposes the analysis -albeit brief- of an

emblematic case, which sends a strong message to the viability of the Rule of Law: with

money and sufficient power, everything is possible in Mexico. Problem whose centrality in
Mexico is addressed in the following way by Jorge Carpizo (2010: 21):

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