Homicidios, Secuestros y Extorsiones: disminución de la violencia como prioridad de la Estrategia Nacional de Seguridad en México (2006-2012)

According to the former president Felipe Calderon, the National Security Strategy designed to overcome the danger posed by the organized crime could curb the tendency of violence by the end of his Administration. This article intends to evaluate such statement using data published by National Statistics and the Finance Ministry. We correlate the amounts of public money spent in security issues against the number of homicides per year to estimate the level of efficiency; we also focus on those federal entities, which received more support by the National Security Strategy and analyze them in terms of homicides in three different periods. At the end, other variables like kidnappings, extortion and unemployment are included in the analysis to see in what extend they could probably have explained violence between 2006-2012.