Mexican drug cartel network map

8 Comments

• 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