Recent massacres in three different regions of Mexico have shown the importance of analyzing local power structures to understand the causes of violence.
Mexico has set new records for homicides in the last three years. Most recently, the brazen June 26 military-style attack on Mexico City Public Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch, where two bodyguards and a 26-year-old woman were killed — as well as the murder of a family of six and the latest discovery of human remains in clandestine graves — has put a spotlight on the escalating violence.
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