Mexican fight

Back in 2006, the government of Mexico deployed the army to "crack down on drug cartels." There's been a social cost: 200,000 murders since that time. 

The record for yearly murders was set in 2017. Mexico's population then was 123 million, and they suffered about 28,700 murders. That's roughly one in 4,285.

To get an idea of the scale of this violence, compare it to the United States. There were about 17,000 murders in the U.S. population of about 326 million in the year 2017. That's roughly one in 19,000. 

Mexico's 2017 murder rate was more than four times that of the U.S.

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