Violence cost Mexico hundreds of billions of dollars in 2024 despite the country becoming more peaceful, according to a recent study.

Criminal activity in Mexico cost the country an estimated $245 billion in 2024, a figure equivalent to 18% of its GDP ...

For Brazil, which has the largest economy in the region, that meant a loss of $76 billion in 2023 and nearly $63 billion for Mexico ... for quantifying the economic impacts of crime. While the IDB ...

Rising homicide rates in Mexico, driven by drug trafficking violence, have led to a gendered labor shift—men exit the ...

Stronger peso In addition to higher labor costs, auto companies doing business in Mexico have suffered ... high levels of violence and crime as "obstacles to economic activity and foreign and ...

Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as 1st female president of Mexico ... “Organized crime runs rampant throughout the country and govern vast swaths of Mexican countryside and economic activities ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday spared two American gun companies from a lawsuit by Mexico's ...

The direct costs of crime and violence in Latin America reached 3.44% of the region’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022, mostly unchanged from a previous IDB study published in 2017.

In response to President Trump’s announcement of executive orders threatening mass deportations, reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” policy ... The human and economic cost of these policies will be ...