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2017 was Mexico's most violent year in two decades, with 23,101 murders carried out between January and November, according to official figures released Friday. The number of murders in the first 11 months of this year surpassed the previous record of 22,409 killings during the whole of 2011.
In November alone, 2,212 murders were recorded - while 2,380 killings were carried out in October, making it the most violent month since the authorities began keeping records two decades ago. Violence has surged across Mexico over the last decade after former president Felipe Calderon's government declared war against the country's powerful drug cartels in late 2006.
Some 190,000 people have died in drug related violence since then. This year, the killings spread to states which had previously escaped clashes between cartels - including Baja California Sur, a northwestern state popular with tourists where the murder rate has more than doubled from last year's total.
According to experts, this year's considerable increase in violence is the result of cartels fragmenting into smaller, more brutal cells. Former Drug Enforcement Administration agent Mike Vigil told AFP that cartels have started to fight for territory to grow illicit crops - while a weak police force and rampant corruption further fuel the problem. Semaforo Delictivo, a civil society project promoting peace in Mexico, in October said the high murder rate reflected a lack of action by the authorities and a "failure" of their anti-crime strategy.

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