{"id":1789,"date":"2017-05-09T13:09:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1776again.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T22:49:32","slug":"1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/2017\/05\/09\/1789\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Is The Second-Most Deadly Conflict Zone In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico is the second-most deadly conflict zone in the world behind only Syria in the number of murders committed each year ONly the deaths in Mexico are caused by the Drug Cartels, not a war zone, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

The country has surpassed both Iraq and Afghanistan to become the world\u2019s most violent country after Syria, the study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) says.<\/p>\n

Nearly 23,000 people were killed in Mexico in 2016 as the turf wars among drug cartels continued. Around 17,000 were killed in Afghanistan and 16,000 in Iraq during the same time period.<\/p>\n

Researchers pointed out that Mexico’s level of violence is especially shocking because the conflict in the country is \u201cmarked by the absence of artillery, tanks or combat aviation,\u201d IISS director general John Chipman said while discussing the survey in London on Tuesday. Instead, Chipman said, almost all of the Mexican deaths were the result of small arms.<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of deaths were reported in the states of Sinaloa and Guerrero, known for fighting \u201camong competing, increasingly fragmented cartels,\u201d he said. Violence frequently occurs as gangs attempt to clear locations of rivals so that they can gain control of select drug trafficking routes or markets.<\/p>\n

Overall, Syria remained the most violent place on earth, according to the study cited by Bloomberg. The conflict in Syria has left around 50,000 people dead since it started in 2011.<\/p>\n

Violence dropped significantly in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the study, with the amount of people killed falling more than a third from the year before.<\/p>\n

Worldwide, the number of people who died in armed battles dropped to 157,000 in 2016 from 167,000 in 2015. The globalists are slacking but those numbers are still high compared to the previous decade. According to the survey the number of civilians displaced by globalist wars continue to increase, too.<\/p>\n

Even Journalists are being murdered in astounding rates.\u00a0On March 23, the 54-year-old correspondent for Chihuahua\u2019s\u00a0La Jornada<\/i>became the 30th journalist murdered in the country since 2012.<\/p>\n

According to Reporters without Borders, Mexico is currently the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, with nine media professionals murdered in 2016 alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe effect of the violence is a kind of self-censorship,\u201d said Javier Valdez, an award-winning reporter who worked with Breach in northwest Mexico. \u201cYou have to know the rules \u2013 how the gangs or police or a local politician here or there will respond to a certain story \u2013 but those rules can change quickly.”<\/p>\n