''The Economist has dubbed it ‘the tormented isthmus‘. It is the most murderous region on earth: the ‘northern triangle’ of Central America formed by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The bloody drugs war that has raged in neighbouring Mexico since 2006 has spilled over into a region already destabilised by years of civil war in the 1980s, plagued by local gangs and corrupt institutions, and with too few police.
While adding the region to the institute’s Armed Conflict Database recently, we unearthed a raft of alarming statistics. These include:
- Around 50,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched his war on drugs in 2006.
- During the same period, 90,000 people have been murdered in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador (according to national law-enforcement sources) – even though the three countries’ combined population of 28 million is around one quarter of Mexico’s.''
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