Supplemental Material, online_appendix_final_JCR - The "War on Drugs" in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011 (original) (raw)
2018
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Supplemental Material, online_appendix_final_JCR for The "War on Drugs" in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011 by Laura H. Atuesta, Oscar S. Siordia, and Alejandro Madrazo Lajous in Journal of Conflict Resolution
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