Mexico's Drug War Is Fueling A Massive Exodus Of Its Citizens

Mexico Drug War Displaces 230,000 and Half Find Refuge in the U.S., Says Report -- FOX News

About 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug violence, and about half of them may have taken refuge in the United States, a new report says.

There were 27.5 million internally displaced people in the world in 2010, said the report by he Swiss-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide. About 5.4 million of these were in the Americas, an increase of 400,000 -- mostly due to an increase in the number displaced in Colombia and Mexico. There were more people displaced in the Americas in 2010 than in the Middle-East.

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Update: Mexico drug violence fuels exodus -- Al Jazeera

My Comment: When one looks at the casualty rates coming in from Mexico's drug cartel war, it has all the signs of a vicious and prolonged civil war. My surprise with this report is with the number that they are publicizing .... 230,000 refugees. From what I understand on what is happening in Mexico, I would think that the number would be many times that.