Scaling laws of inter-event time casualties of narco-war in Mexico

A. Nájera-Santos (), B. Sánchez-Espinosa D.â (), M. del Castillo-Mussot and J. Espinal-Enríquez ()
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A. Nájera-Santos: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México
B. Sánchez-Espinosa D.â: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México
M. del Castillo-Mussot: ��Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México
J. Espinal-Enríquez: ��Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, México City 14610, México

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2022, vol. 33, issue 09, 1-9

Abstract: From the official report of narco-war-related casualties in Mexico from December 2006 to September 2011, we show that the inter-event time distribution (calculated for a range of minimum sizes) approximately obeys simple scaling laws similar to violent conflicts in Iraq (2003–2005), Afghanistan (2008–2010) and Northern Ireland (1969–2001). Furthermore, normalizing deaths by population municipalities (the smallest Mexican political entities) yields even better fitting results.

Keywords: Complex systems; power law; statistical physics; earthquakes; narco-war (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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