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Interactive Map of the Drug War in Mexico

If you're interested at all in what's happening in Mexico you can't miss the interactive map of the drug war I just made. You can link directly to cities or whole regions within Mexico and post them to Twitter and Facebook by clicking on the "Share This Map" link at the bottom of the box. You can even compare 2007 México with 2010 México and switch between drug war-related homicides and total homicides (the ones from the INEGI). If you hover over the chart you'll get the monthly values and information on important events. To top it off you can export the monthly data to csv. Read More

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