Mexican drug cartel network map

I’m not entirely sure what we’re looking at here, other than relationships between Mexican drug cartels. Maybe someone can shed some light on the subject.

uSaPdM — November 9, 2010 at 4:43 am

Mexican ‘mafia’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Familia_Michoacana
Data is probably from Project Coronado..
ObSciGuy — November 9, 2010 at 7:23 am

You could probably send an email or a tweet to the guy named in the lower left corner — Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán — for the full story.
Amy — November 9, 2010 at 8:46 am

This was also featured on http://www.fastcodesign.com, with an explanation of how to read it. Basically it shows the integration between cells of La Michoana and Government agencies, and the amount of information flowing between them:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662638/infographic-of-the-day-the-power-structure-of-a-mexican-drug-cartel

Scary.
- Nathan Yau — November 9, 2010 at 8:58 am
  
  thanks, amy.
songbogong — November 9, 2010 at 9:52 am

How to draw this kind of map?
I wonder these nodes are manually placed?
- Jesse — November 9, 2010 at 10:32 am
  
  The diagram looks sort of like a Gephi mapping, because of the curved network edges.
  
  The layout looks like a force-directed layout with a fish-eye projection… but I’m not sure. =P
songbogong — November 9, 2010 at 10:44 am

Thank you for your comment.
I hope an actionscript version of JUNG, java graph library, or any graph layout engines.
karl — November 14, 2010 at 5:44 am

In the bottom right corner. There is a short explanation.

1. narcotraffickers ← connection → public-servants

2. capacity for arbitrating information