SexViolHist Bib: Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Mexican Drug War

»The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as War against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) is an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence. The Mexican government has asserted that their primary focus is dismantling the cartels and preventing drug trafficking. The conflict has been described as the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the United States federal government.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Rape in the Mexican Drug War

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Since the beginning of the Mexican Drug War in 2006, many women, of Mexican and other nationalities, have been victims of extortion, rape, torture, and murder, as well as forced disappearance, by belligerents on all sides. Women have been sex trafficked in Mexico by the cartels and gangs. The criminal organizations, in turn, use the profits to buy weapons and expand. They have harmed and carried out sexual assault of migrants from Latin America to the United States. The violence against women in the drug war has spread beyond Mexico to bordering and nearby countries in Central America and North America. The number of women killed in the conflict is unknown because of the lack of data.« -- More information: Wikipedia

G e n e r a l K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century | Geographical Index: American History: Mexican History | Topical Index: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Angel Hernández, Greta E. »Terror through rape: Sexual violence inflicted in the context of the Mexican drug war.« Civitas Hominibus 18 (2023): 61-72.

II. Speaker Index