Mexican Military Confrontations with Criminal Groups, 2007-2022

Recorded violent encounters between the Mexican army and alleged criminal groups from January 2007 to December 2022. The data originates from the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) and was processed by Guillermo Escaño. It includes counts of soldiers and alleged aggressors killed, wounded, or detained.

Use Cases

• Modeling the temporal and geographic spread of military confrontations based on the municipality-level event data.
• Analyzing casualty trends among soldiers and alleged aggressors based on the recorded counts.
• Evaluating the long-term treatment effect of military presence using the binary 'ever-treated' variable.

Strengths

• Data spans 16 years from 2007 to 2022.
• Sourced directly from the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA).
• Includes municipality-level coding for longitudinal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA)

Collection Method

Requested and collected under data access rights (ARCO).

Time Range

January 2007 to December 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-07 15:36:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mexico, likely at the municipality level