EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Mexico
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 1 Jan 2024 and 31 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 6,716 events of organised violence in Mexico from published sources. Their best estimate is 20,149 people killed — and their own range runs 6,858–21,542, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 6,858–21,542. On 33of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.
6,507 placed precisely enough to map; 209 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
822–4,506 · 842 ev
1,572–4,499 · 1,558 ev
789–2,845 · 692 ev
1,136–2,295 · 1,034 ev
159–1,531 · 121 ev
229–1,246 · 261 ev
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 0–858. UCDP's own estimate spans 0 to 858; 858 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Jalisco Cartel New Generation - Santa Rosa de Li · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Mexico, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Mexico under the name “Mexico”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.