Concentration of violence in Mexico? The invention of Calderon´s Government

In the first four years of the administration of Felipe Calderón, the homicides rate rose from 8.1 to 22.7 deaths per hundred thousand people and the deaths that occurred on suspicion of criminal rivalry (FOPRD) from 2.6 to 13.5 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants. Regardless of the rise in violence, the official version is that it is concentrated in a few states or municipalities. For example, the Secretary of the Interior, stated that 70% of FOPRD in 2010 occurred in 7 entities: Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Durango, Mexico State and Nuevo Leon. This paper, noting the change in homicide rates and FOPRD, shows that violence was actually spread in the country during 2007-2010.